DEEPER SLEEPER – THE SELF-TITLED DEBUT PROJECT FROM JOSHUA HARMON – IS OUT NOW
DEEPER SLEEPER – THE SELF-TITLED DEBUT PROJECT FROM THE BACKSEAT LOVERS’ JOSHUA HARMON – IS OUT TODAY
Capitol Records released deeper sleeper – the self-titled solo debut project from The Backseat Lovers’ frontman Joshua Harmon. Download / stream HERE. Harmon wrote, produced, recorded and mixed all 13 songs found on the album.
“I love recording music and had no idea how to do it before starting this album,” says Joshua Harmon, who is currently back in the studio with his bandmates, recording The Backseat Lovers’ third album.
“It was the first time I’ve had all the crayons to myself, and I’m really proud of the strange, colorful creatures that now stare back at me from the page.”
The project was born several years ago, as Harmon sought an outlet for the songs that he was writing that didn’t seem like a natural fit for The Backseat Lovers. He describes the album as feeling like “a tattered journal that’s been swaying in the bottom of a coffee-stained tote bag for multiple winters and summers.”
Harmon says, “Some pages make me emotional to read and others make me think ‘who the hell drew this silly horse man smoking a cigar?’”
Today, he shared the official video for “maggie’s waltz.” Directed and animated by Berlin-based artist/illustrator Kogan, the video catapults the experimental vibe of the song into a vibrant universe. View HERE.
The ethereal “this is red leader” closes out the album with a bright yearning for rebirth, reinvention. Harmon shared a series of tracks leading up to the album’s release, including “wishing for you,” which landed on Spotify’s flagship Folk playlist as well as the undercurrents and juniper playlists.
He recalls, “I wrote wishing for you in the quiet of winter in the wake of a sudden broken heart. With my close friends and family weaving in and out of each melody that mumbled out my mouth and into the dark echo chamber that I recorded it in. From conception to recording, this has been the most fluid transfer that I’ve been able to experience as a songwriter so far.”
Warm, introspective, humorous raw, surreal, homespun, intelligent, out there – the debut album from deeper sleeper is all of these things and more. Listen HERE.
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