"your love life isn't your life..."
James The Fifth is the divergent musical project of Los Angeles based artist, composer, musician and producer James Thomer and his latest track "Love Life" with an accompanying dark and bloody comedic Official Video (conceived / written by James and directed by himself with Dillon Cullinan) pulls and pushes in an amalgam of friendly power art pop and caustic experimental proto punk / experimental art rock before (at least in the video) bleeds out literally. The layers of vox cajole in a sort of Bowie (circa 1980) way, interestingly when Robert Fripp was melding minds with Bowie (since 1977) and Fripp has left an artistic impression on James as he describes "Love Life" as a "Frenetic and groovy psych-pop track with guitar work reminiscent of Robert Fripp. "
On the track James handles vox, guitars, moog werkstatt, bass, production with the talents of Scott Gilmore on synths, Jonny Kosmo on Piano and Eric Werner on drums. I am digging the sort of zombie piano downbeats, the bass line with the sideways off beat push, those dazzling Frippian guitar bends, the smashed active beat and those luscious sort of glammy vox.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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https://www.facebook.com/jamesthevifth
https://jamesv.land/
https://www.instagram.com/jamesthevifth/
https://twitter.com/jamesthevifth
https://soundcloud.com/jamesthevifth
https://jamesv.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5P7Fcv9iAk0I13IlhXnNMb?si=CZIHtqoRTeOXoXFHQTamnw&nd=1
James Thomer is an LA-based recording artist, composer and producer. In 2016 he released his debut as “James The Fifth” with EP San Narciso (sahn-nahrk-ee-soh) on Gnar Tapes and Marriage Records, an oblong dreamy stew of psych and funk with elements of Reichian minimalism. In 2017, San Narciso was rereleased, remixed and engineered with Grammy-award winning producer John Congleton (St Vincent, Angel Olsen, Swans, and more).
Since then, he’s released several singles and self-directed music videos, including "Television", which was released physically, extremely physically, on tube TV's specifically built to play only the song "Television" and “Blondie”, which premiered on DIY Mag in August 2019.
In late 2018, James worked under composer Magnus Fiennes in collaboration on the score of British sci-fi thriller “Curfew” on Sky One (see reel here).
His full-length debut is due in 2021.
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