Deserta Drop Second Single, “Save Me,” From Black Aura My Sun
The shoegaze outfit readies their first full-length for January 17.
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CategoryArts + Culture, Music + Podcasts
Earlier this month we featured “Hide,” the first offering from Matthew Doty’s new shoegaze project, Deserta. A long, sweeping epic that drips with reverbed guitars and hushed vocals, the nearly seven-minute track caught the ear of taste-making blogs like Post-Punk.com and The Owl Mag.
Now he’s back with a second tune, “Save Me,” which will tide over fans until the proper full length, Black Aura My Sun, drops on January 17. Says Doty about the track, “It’s a sentimental song about romanticizing a desire to maintain the newness of things. I wanted it to build and be powerful in a way that required more than the tried and true standard of adding on some drum fills and switching on the overdrive pedals. To accomplish that I allowed the song to take a few breathers throughout so the vocal melody, guitars and drums could have their moment. The timing and simplicity (and reverb) I think allow it to achieve what I was going for.”
You can listen to “Save Me” here, and check out Doty’s first single, “Hide,” on the Deserta Spotify.
Mike Weber Finds Balance in Nature
Los Angeles mixed-media artist Mike Weber splits his time between the city and the mountains. He explains how this process of creating and living in two vastly different spaces helps keep him in balance.
