New single from PROBLEMS, Black Hole In The Ocean, featuring deaths dynamic shroud
I made the instrumental for "Black Hole in the Ocean" and could immediately hear Tech singing on it. I'm happy he (unprompted) put the word "problem" in the lyrics, as it appears in about half of the songs on this new record. The song is extremely complicated musically, and uses some of my favorite production tricks and ideas that I've been shaping and perfecting for years — including my maximalist percussion racks where I program a complex polyphonic drum pattern and load it into a bank with 128 samples in it, spreading all the hits across all the samples before slicing it into audio and printing loops out of the most exciting parts. The video was shot in a lagoon in New Zealand using go pros and drones, about 50 feet away from a stage that I'd perform on later that week. (You can see the stage, and my friend / cameraman Daniel Nagels' production tent in the video). I like songs like this, that can sound really pretty or really spooky, depending on how engaged with it you want to be.
PROBLEMS
Enter the Annals Tour
May 3 Lincoln, NE Lincoln Calling Fest
May 10 Kansas City, MO Lemonade Park*
May 11 Lawrence, KS Replay Lounge*
May 12 Omaha, NE Reverb* (matinee show)
May 13 Davenport, IA Raccoon Motel*
May 14 Des Moines, IA The Lift*
May 15 St Louis, MO Pops Blue Moon*
May 16 Minneapolis, MN Cloudland*
May 17 Madison, WI Mickeys*
May 18 Iowa City, IA PS1*
May 19 Bloomington, IL Meltdown Creative*
May 20 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle*
May 21 Indianapolis, IN State Street Pub*
May 22 Cincinatti, OH Comet Tavern*
May 23 Columbus, OH Cafe Bourbon St.*
May 24 Pittsburgh, PA Little Giant*
May 25 NYC, NY Radio Nublu*
May 26 Boston, MA Obriens*
May 27 Richmond, VA TBA*
May 28 Reading, PA Pleasuretone DIY*
May 29 Philadelphia, PA Haus*
May 31 Centre Hall, PA Rhoneymeade Fest
June 1 Columbus, NE Power & Progress Festival
with Flesh Produce