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I talked with Cole about his Dead Gaze project a while ago now after he sent me a CD-R of some tracks he'd been working on and I was so glad to see this single announced on Facebook yesterday from Firetalk Records...From what I remember Cole has some amazing tricks up his sleeve every track and, "Take me home or I die alone" is no exception. I know it's going to be inspiring, that he's been listening to everything, taking it in, and filtering it through Dead Gaze. The tape speeds up and a melodic guitar (?) line leads heavily reverb/echoed drums pounding in. The vocals are super warbly phasered out with some delay and he somehow makes this unsettling vocal sound like another hazed out pop song. Synth sounds break in and they're almost '90s teen high school movie finale or My Bloody Valentine under the jangly fuzz of guitar melody. The tracks I heard years ago were just the beginning obviously."Emanuel Can't Come Close Enough", the B-Side has the slow burn layered build up of Beach Fossils with that same outer space vocal. Great live drum track, which I'm sure he even played himself that talented bastard. I love Dead Gaze.
Pop enough to put it a seven inch because a full length might be too much to take in all at once...and these two deserve to be studied and revered on the sweet, sweet vinyl.Check out both of these tracks from Get Off the Coast and preorder this badboy from Firetalk Records.
Cole contacted me about a week ago about his latest project called Dead Gaze.
He's in the process of pressing a single, either self released or through a couple labels he's been talking to so he sent me his self recorded album called 'The Pride of Calling Panther Lake'. I loved it, it seemed to be incorporating everything I've been listening to lately, the dense atmospheric layering of Panda Bear, the quiet home recording vulnerability of Chad Vangaalen, and the blown out echo heavy distortion of Wavves. Recorded at his Dad's sprawling, remote instrument filled complex in Mississippi near Panther Lake, it sounded like the dream environment which you can hear across the 8 tracks.
The Pride of Calling Panther Lake is available from Cole directly by emailing him at Rcfurlow (at) gmail, or may still be available at Gritmusic.blogspot to download direct.We talked about playing in Boyscout Knife, a hill country blues band he's been playing in the last 3 years, the challenges of recreating Dead Gaze live, and a chance meeting members of Animal Collective at a party.Cole is a wealth of music knowledge and we ended up talking about Brian Eno, King Tubby and a million others I'm still looking in to. There are plans to tour this summer, hopefully up here in NYC, and I'll let everyone know as soon as any kind of release from Cole becomes available. Go listen to Cole and Dead Gaze on the show for this week.... Episode 50 (30min).
