"I will let it go, let it go..."
"One Day" by the divergent alt rock blendo De Staat is a dark dreamscape moving on droning pulsating synths that feel like the ghosts of a vintage tape sampling Mellotron M400 but bent with modern tones against trip hop-esque drum beats and Torre Florim's big and bold croon. There are other things layered in, dirty sounds, thick sinewy bass tones and taken in total the sound feels emotionally dystopian but also hopeful. Love the fractured quality here like the song exists in the scratchy past and unknown future at the very same time.
The Dutch shape shifting band who love to and do borrow from whatever genre is the right color for their art are pivoting away from releasing an album in 2022 but instead are embracing their eclectic nature by releasing 18 streaming songs throughout the year reflecting the primary colors of red, yellow and blue.
De Staat explains:
"It's all there in the music. Red, for tracks fueled by rock and roll aggression; yellow, for funk, dancing and primal joy; blue for big-scale melodic rock songs that wear their heart on their sleeve. The challenge is to see what you hear - or hear what you see. This is a project built for streaming but bringing back some of the visual aesthetics of gatefold vinyl: a feast for the senses from the funkiest, earthiest rock band in Europe, in which sight and sound collide."
If you haven't guessed the ethereal and audacious "One Day" is a blue song.
The Dutch shape shifting band who love to and do borrow from whatever genre is the right color for their art are pivoting away from releasing an album in 2022 but instead are embracing their eclectic nature by releasing 18 streaming songs throughout the year reflecting the primary colors of red, yellow and blue.
De Staat explains:
"It's all there in the music. Red, for tracks fueled by rock and roll aggression; yellow, for funk, dancing and primal joy; blue for big-scale melodic rock songs that wear their heart on their sleeve. The challenge is to see what you hear - or hear what you see. This is a project built for streaming but bringing back some of the visual aesthetics of gatefold vinyl: a feast for the senses from the funkiest, earthiest rock band in Europe, in which sight and sound collide."
If you haven't guessed the ethereal and audacious "One Day" is a blue song.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Twelve years after their debut, Netherlands' It's all there in the music. Red, for tracks fueled by rock and roll aggression; yellow, for funk, dancing and primal joy; blue for big-scale melodic rock songs that wear their heart on their sleeve. The challenge is to see what you hear - or hear what you see. This is a project built for streaming but bringing back some of the visual aesthetics of gatefold vinyl: a feast for the senses from the funkiest, earthiest rock band in Europe, in which sight and sound collide.
remain deliciously hard to categorize. Six million views for their spectacular viral video Witch Doctor and the world of metal went mad for them: supporting Muse and the Rolling Stones, they were well at home in classic rock. Under frontman Torre Florim, whose big blues voice works like a call-to-arms, De Staat flirt with funk and hip hop, deep introspection and wild humor. This year, there'll be no studio album - a mammoth collection of new songs will roll out on streaming, month by month, starting this week and throughout 2022. Florim has embraced his band's famous eclecticism to produce rock's first auditory art project - eighteen tracks reflecting the primary colors of red, yellow and blue. How does it work? It's all there in the music. Red, for tracks fueled by rock and roll aggression; yellow, for funk, dancing and primal joy; blue for big-scale melodic rock songs that wear their heart on their sleeve. The challenge is to see what you hear - or hear what you see. This is a project built for streaming but bringing back some of the visual aesthetics of gatefold vinyl: a feast for the senses from the funkiest, earthiest rock band in Europe, in which sight and sound collide.
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