LP020: Jake Acosta 'Retrospector' CD // DIGI // PDF
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I used to say 'time is a medical condition'. Back then, my window addiction would turn hours into days and nights, alone through the panes, registering the human conditional tense, compulsively compiling the past into true and untrue realities and timelines, romanticizing what was, was not, and what could have been, discerning realms. Time has slowly poisoned me with its unlimited provisionals and coerced me into its multiverses of contingencies. I became obessed with what would or could be true, then false. A growing conviction for what is wrong became tantamount to what is right. And what is right these days, anyway? A correct stance felt poseur. There's nothing older and more played out than the truth. Humans have been getting it right since the beginning, and it couldnt be getting any less exciting. But what is wrong? Its fun, revealing, empowering, it can be conditional, alternative, infinite, singular. Not me in 2023, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. My mistake and bad.
...and all of the sudden, 200 Bandcamp Friday's into the future, I'm nostalgic for the mistakes that got me here. So, here are two tracks I produced this year that really try to give recognition to the condition I'm now referring to as 'psilopsychosomatic'.
ONE MORE THING, there is a free download of the Retrospector 2023 Vision Board .pdf that will take you even further out there, in the wrong direction, at the worst time, with no path, no light, or sound, no one around, and when it seems like you're too far out, too far gone, and everything's wrong, that's my song.
Buoyant vocals and a varied palette of synths work in perfect tandem to create gorgeous art-pop that's able to address big realities. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 2, 2019
This remix LP reframes songs from Dear Nora’s “Skull Example,” sometimes making them sleeker, sometimes disassembling them entirely. Bandcamp New & Notable May 14, 2019
The LA singer-songwriter revisits this year's "Ashes" LP with a collection of remixes from Kris Passion, Linus, XOR, and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 10, 2021
Lyrics swirl in a dream-like state above a whirl of exploding guitars and driving drums on this LP of experimental rock. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 26, 2015
This drummer's group broke up, so he learned how to play everything himself and calls the result "villainous scuzz." Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 12, 2014