"I don't want to be saved just want to be yours"
From the onset, "Ph Dean" by ØZWALD, feels surreal and dreamy. And I do mean from the onset. It is the vibratone synth sounds that stair step down (and up) and feel sad but wide eyed at the same time as if one is stepping through a door to a semi cartoon world. The beat feels deliciously free and easy and the guitar hook carries the tender vox and harmonies of Jason Wade and Steve Stout of the band Lifehouse. This is their project formed 'over a bond of the Beatles' and there is a psyche sense of 'plasticine porters with looking glass ties' embued in their sound, although "Ph Dean", anyway, feels emotionally less grand and, well, I like that.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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ØZWALD is the indie side project of lead singer and guitarist Jason Wade and Steve Stout of the band Lifehouse. Jay and Steve started the project over a bond of the Beatles and writing songs where they both sang together in a new project with no rules.
With the goal of releasing 2 full-length LP's a year, the duo has produced/written and released 3 records since 2019 with a 4th on the way titled 'For Polly Anna' - keep an eye out for that release through the Fall of 2020 as well as plenty of psychedelically reimagined covers throughout.
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