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Saturday, February 15, 2020

PREMIERE: Vlad Holiday lipstick lush "Lazy" has glitter ball dust and a magic box too (Official Video)



















"gifted to me"

I don't know Vlad Holiday personally but I like him. I mean, from his seriously broken indie rock sounds he is a hopeless romantic or maybe just hopeless, either is ok for an artist like him. Cradling his kind of glam rock pop postures in sometimes blues lounge rock tropicalia or in glitter ball psychedelia is damn moving and cool. His kind of rock and roll has lipstick smeared on it with wild abandon. Messy but with sad eye shadow too. When he wails on guitar and vox it is stirring. On his latest track Lazy he has extra magic sprinkled on it from his own magic box given to him by a special wizard. He offers this about Lazy:

 "Lazy was written about the moment you decide to give in and just let go of everything on your plate that needs to get done for the time being. When all the weight and stress goes away and you get to just relax and enjoy not doing anything. It’s a good feeling. I recorded the guitar solo with a fuzz guitar pedal that was gifted to me by Jack White. I’d been a huge fan of his my whole life, and I’m an even bigger pedal nerd, so when I got to meet him through a mutual friend and he gave me this pedal I was kind of blown away and knew I had to put it to good use. The pedal itself sounds really insane and has a life of its own, so I thought that juxtaposed in a cool way with the song’s laid back theme and groove."

Fuck yeah. I can't even imagine the serious magic in that box. Lazy, with the sad kind of Spaghetti Western meets starry eyed lullaby tone, it is drenched with carnival illusions and longing. It fuses a sort of hip hop bounce Vlad Holiday style within the 60's sock hop punk tones. It is romance and hormones gone amok on a couch cast in pinks and reds. The guitar shots are serious and delicious. It is smile inducing and swaying. I raise my drink to Vlad for this gift to all of us.

Producer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Vlad Holiday's debut EP "Fall Apart With Me" is out March 27th, 2020.

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Robb Donker Curtius







THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Lazy was written about the moment you decide to give in and just let go of everything on your plate that needs to get done for the time being. When all the weight and stress goes away and you get to just relax and enjoy not doing anything. It’s a good feeling. I recorded the guitar solo with a fuzz guitar pedal that was gifted to me by Jack White. "I’d been a huge fan of his my whole life, and I’m an even bigger pedal nerd, so when I got to meet him through a mutual friend and he gave me this pedal I was kind of blown away and knew I had to put it to good use. The pedal itself sounds really insane and has a life of its own, so I thought that juxtaposed in a cool way with the song’s laid back theme and groove."


Brooklyn based lofi artist Vlad Holiday is releasing his debut EP Fall Apart With Me. Written, produced and recorded by Holiday in his New York City studio on tape and instruments from previous eras, he found his creative process by using the old to create something new. On the opening track, Holiday sings of a “Phonograph,” (a machine invented by Thomas Edison in the 1800’s) romanticizing the past, a melody from long ago, and willing to break down and lose himself in it. The distinct vocal sound throughout the EP was recorded on a microphone from the 1950’s, almost searching for this classic sound and inflection of a time when music perhaps meant something more.

Vlad Holiday fled his birthplace of Bucharest, Romania after his family received death threats from their government. Fast forward years of searching for himself and his sound, writing, recording and touring with other projects, Holiday began producing and releasing music under his own moniker. Music that’s tinged with the past he might have endured, always somewhat melancholy even in the brighter moments. Songs that aim to represent human emotions, love, tragedy and everything in-between, told through his own story. On the EP’s closing track “Twisted the Covers,” Holiday sings “But it always ends so vicious / So baby fall apart with me,” a simple acknowledgment that everything fades and nothing lasts, but maybe going into it accepting that fact may just make for a better, and a more real experience.



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