Serpentwithfeet
Avant-garde vocalist and performance artist Serpentwithfeet releases a new EP and Getintothis’ Jason Simon tells you all you need to know.
New York artist Serpentwithfeet has just released a brand new three-track EP, titled Apparition, via Secretly Canadian Records.
His brand of mysterious art pop returns for the first time since his single Receipts came out in June last year.
As an avant-garde vocalist and performance artist, his growing body of work is rooted in duelling obsessions with the ephemeral and the everlasting key components of his artistic journey from a childhood stint as a choirboy in Baltimore through his time at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied vocal performance before relocating to New York City.
The EP’s wispy vocals and haunting atmosphere mark a welcome return to the current alternative R&B scene.
The lyric video for the EP’s first track ‘A Comma’ has also been released. The track is a wistful tune in which he searches for the source of his discomfort.
The single, originally released via Adult Swim Singles on 30th March, was the first look into the EP.
While crafting the phantasmal EP, produced by Wynne Bennett (Janelle Monae, Tayla Parx, Twin Shadow) Serpentwithfeet asked himself one question: ‘What ghosts am I welcoming into my house?’
He explains: “I believe in ghosts. Always have. I need them as much as I need breath. Often, I’ve rejected the way spirit moves in my life. Apparition EP follows my journey back home.”
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His last album soil ,Number 3 on New York Times best albums of 2018, is a return to the sensibilities and wide-eyed curiosity of his musical youth before symmetry and sterile soundscapes ruled the roost.
The release of soil saw him rediscover and ultimately return to the unhinged version of himself he was sure he had outgrown.
He is currently at work on the follow up to soil, due later this year.
With this concise set of tracks revealing how he’s moved forward in the past year, Apparition bodes well for Serpentwithfeet to come out with a powerful and sensual sophomore release.
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