Description
Label Review.
2017 album.
Our Overview.
‘Swim Inside The Moon’ is the second full length album from the Los Angeles based 24 year old charismatic, singer songwriter Angelo De Austine. His self-released debut album, Spirals of Silence, and 3-song EP follow-up, ‘How Past Begins’, earned praise from The Fader, Stereogum, Vogue, My Old Kentucky Blog, and more.
‘Swim Inside The Moon’ is a delicate, confident, quiet singer songwriter record in which Angelo’s setup was simple: a Shure SM57 microphone next to the wall of the shower and a cable back to an analogue reel-to-reel in his nearby bathroom. For some songs, he played his mother’s 100-year old piano in the living room and on others he added synth and electric guitar. “A sound behind the voice,” says Angelo, “I noticed that when you sing off a reflective surface you hear two voices. I was compelled to isolate that voice and bring it more to the front of the songs because in many ways I feel more connected to and comforted by that voice following me.”
The ruminative, lo-fi singer-songwriters new album is released on Sufjan Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty label. It has echoes of Nick Drake’s intricate arpeggiated guitar parts, Elliott Smith’s pure vocals or, at times, a likeness to the soulfulness of artists such as Robert Johnson, Vashti Bunyan and Judee Sill.