"I shed my skin all over again..."
[We find a transformed Stith, who, after a decade in Brooklyn that saw releases on Asthmatic Kitty and Octave Recordings, moved to Rochester, New York in the summer of 2021 trading the familiar density of New York City for fresh perspective on the shores of Lake Ontario. The experience and resulting artistic clarity cut through on the track with Stith declaring, "I shed my skin/all over again/ All my memories and All they represent" with a playful, reassured tone. The single forecasts a new chapter for Stith showing the lighter side of craft without sacrificing any of the insight or depth. Largely recorded by Stith in his new studio in Western New York and co-produced with Thomas Bartlett (Yoko Ono, Florence + the Machine, St. Vincent).]
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DM Stith is a Brooklyn based singer, composer, and visual artist. His prior releases, 2016’s Pigeonheart and 2009’s Heavy Ghost, explored memory and introspection, through a unique combination of acoustic arrangements augmented by electronic beats and flourishes, all of which was carried by a dense layering of haunting and emotive vocals.
In late 2018, DM Stith built out his home studio and mined the depths of his songs that had developed between album projects over the years. Parsing through this catalog of work revealed cast-off album directions, choral fantasies, covers, weirdo pop jams and collaborations simply waiting for new life to be pressed back into them.
Neither album cut nor b-side, these expressions tell both the story of the past and of the future. Recordings from a time gone by that may require nothing more than a light touch to dredge them from the depths or, in some cases, a complete re-envisioning of what the original formation contained. These tracks gleam with a little extra sweetness, as they exist between worlds.
DM Stith, singer songwriter, composer, visual artist, "Doomed!", layered emotionality, eclipsed melancholia, moving storytelling, acoustic guitar, swelling synths, lovely production, orchestrations of sound,
Often times and as is the case now, when I stare out the window with the neighborhood buried in 4 feet of snow and airy white flakes constantly falling, I feel a sense of serene beauty offset by the feeling that doom is near too, that if the power goes out we will be huddled in front of the fire place because I haven't gotten that generator set up.
"Doomed!", by Brooklyn based singer, composer and visual artist DM Stith, feels like the perfect sound track at this moment. It is an eclipsing artistic vision, an embrace of acoustic guitar, swelling synth orchestrations, machine beats that sound very much organic enhanced by DM's vocal countenance that feels locked in equal parts of tenderness, melancholia, pain and self reflection. Besides the downturned lyrics sung in such moving artful ways, subtle nuances within the layers of production it is the percolating acoustic guitar that is the engine that pushes the story forward and I love that.
"Doomed!" is the first single from DM Stith's upcoming album FATA MORGANA out April 14th from Historical Fiction Records.
"Doomed!" is the first single from DM Stith's upcoming album FATA MORGANA out April 14th from Historical Fiction Records.
This is my first taste of this artist but surely will not be the last because "Doomed!" feels like a sonic two way mirror, one where I get lost in DM Stith's emotional snow storm but also where I see a faint reflection of myself as well.
From press notes:
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://twitter.com/dmstith
https://open.spotify.com/artist/63JafnzstkiEySBh4rBiCM
https://www.youtube.com/user/dmstith
https://www.instagram.com/dmstith/
https://dmstith.com/
DM Stith is a Brooklyn based singer, composer, and visual artist. His prior releases, 2016’s Pigeonheart and 2009’s Heavy Ghost, explored memory and introspection, through a unique combination of acoustic arrangements augmented by electronic beats and flourishes, all of which was carried by a dense layering of haunting and emotive vocals.
In late 2018, DM Stith built out his home studio and mined the depths of his songs that had developed between album projects over the years. Parsing through this catalog of work revealed cast-off album directions, choral fantasies, covers, weirdo pop jams and collaborations simply waiting for new life to be pressed back into them.
Neither album cut nor b-side, these expressions tell both the story of the past and of the future. Recordings from a time gone by that may require nothing more than a light touch to dredge them from the depths or, in some cases, a complete re-envisioning of what the original formation contained. These tracks gleam with a little extra sweetness, as they exist between worlds.
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