jh0st talks: sun*load darkstars EP
It wasn’t until 30 years had passed that we would have the chance to sit down and create some tunes. The result is a powerful concoction of sounds that blend the goth and post-rock…
It wasn’t until 30 years had passed that we would have the chance to sit down and create some tunes. The result is a powerful concoction of sounds that blend the goth and post-rock…
At that moment, I glimpsed the distinct features of David Bowie’s face beneath the wide-brimmed fedora…
I finally sat down with Luscious-235 for a rare interview where they revealed 11 secret and urgent points. That the lost decade of…
Unlike the self-creation that the modern world expects of us, the music we love isn’t forced, but rather found…
Gryflet is a world-within-a-world: a vast, epic sound that Nuno, myself, and other collaborators could occupy, explore, and…
To use one last architectural trope, ‘god is in the details,’ after using S1 for a couple months now, I realize how much effort PreSonus put into…
Just as music enters one’s psyche through unexpected associations, bossa nova was introduced to me through my old friend Jin…
[2017] n0va is a 4-song EP of bossa nova grooves specially crafted for your breaking heart. Where pop songs often draw breakups in black and white, bossa…
Cock It is a 70s infused souped-up anti-gun antidote aimed directly at Ted Nugent’s hypocrisy. On this 20th anniversary of the Columbine…
The smell of burnt plastic and kerosene, the sight of boarded up houses, factories, and stores, the sound of a distant gunshot…
starfish lips is an indie-pop song at the intersection of melancholy and cute. Written in 3rd-grade level Korean, it is about learning how to…
My Fallen Twin is a 90s darkwave influenced collab with sun*load: We have a vision of our ourselves, a kind of ideal light. Through mythology…
Ozone (a collab with COtu) is a sunny, R&B infused, mile-high, pop song best consumed before the dark clouds roll in…
Then there’s artists like Frank Baker. His online presence is scant, albums appear for a few months, then whole catalogs disappear into the ether…
In late June 2016, we all woke up to the reality of the Brexit referendum. There was a blanketing, quiet awe of both disbelief and gnawing…
Nuno Tavares, the mastermind behind Gryflet is not a man of many words… but his music and song titles say it all. They are narrative riffs…
Songs about your pets are usually about something much more. We project onto them, we imagine we know what they’re thinking and…
In 1987 I had the privilege of recording with bassist Mike Cassidy on ‘Untitled no.3’ the opening track off my second release, Resonance…
We all have voices in our head. In the early 1930’s the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky defined the distinction between silent…
Even as we change over time, no amount of longing can take us back to the time we were… A song about travels, changes, and searching…