Rare DM shares new drama on the dance-floor single “Jade” via The Talkhouse and goes in-depth about the meaning of the song
New album Vanta Black is due April 12
Stream: “Jade”
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Today Rare DM shares new single “Jade” about a particularly rough recent breakup involving Amsterdam, Facebook Messenger, pigeons and the film Ponyo. She wrote an essay for The Talkhouseabout the experience that led her to write the song.
Vanta Black is the debut album from Rare DM, the solo project of Brooklyn singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Erin Hoagg. Following in the shadows of the previously released “Almost a Year” and the more recent single “Caracal,” Vanta Black tackles subjects and moods fit for the titular hue, itself the blackest manmade pigment (currently under exclusive license to artist Anish Kapoor’s studio). Erin’s Billie Holliday-indebted croon lilts with the relaxed calm of someone whose already cried away all the tears they could muster long ago— too exhausted to fret and now comfortable enough in the darkness to blend in with it. She sings tales of relationships damaged by distance and destructive tendencies, somewhat reluctantly relieved by freedom yet ridden with separation anxiety. Her pulsating, twilight-lit productions that accompany recall mid-aughts-to-modern-day takes on goth, post-punk, and new wave. Perhaps in a nod to the still-burgeoning live synth and dance scene in her hometown of Brookyln, Hoagg prefers to play her concert sets fully live, all analog, seamlessly blending Octotrack, Machinedrum, triggers, and synth.
Rare DM’s debut album is set to release April 12, 2019.
Rare DM
Vanta Black
(Self-Released)
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Pre-save the album here
Track List:
1. Panam
2. Softboy
3. Jade
4. Almost a Year
5. Think Quiet
6. Dark Eyes
7. Spell Cast
8. Best
9. Caracal
10. Wholeheart
11. Night Watch