Danny Malone is a singer-songwriter from Austin, TX, who is anything but a singer-songwriter from Austin, TX. Malone is in complete control of utter chaos. When he's right before your eyes, he's not all there. While being backed by his soulmates and wall of sound, Charley Siess (drums/heartbeat) and Kenni Hede (danish bassist/soundscaper), Malone unconsciously lets out every bit of himself to leave you dancing, heartbroken, smiling and wondering if you've ever felt anything real before now.
His latest release, Speeddreamer, was recorded on a 4-track cassette tape recorder (a tascam 424) at his barn in total isolation. For 2 months, he stayed up all the live long night and worked all the long gone day, writing and recording the entire album. Some songs, like “Black Cat” "Haunted, My Only" and “Olympia2", were written and recorded in the same day. This is one for the headphone junkies. It's a slow burn.
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Danny Malone is a singer-songwriter from Austin, TX, who is anything but a singer-songwriter from Austin, TX. Malone is in complete control of utter chaos. When he's right before your eyes, he's not all there. While being backed by his soulmates and wall of sound, Charley Siess (drums/heartbeat) and Kenni Hede (danish bassist/soundscaper), Malone unconsciously lets out every bit of himself to leave you dancing, heartbroken, smiling and wondering if you've ever felt anything real before now.
His latest release, Speeddreamer, was recorded on a 4-track cassette tape recorder (a tascam 424) at his barn in total isolation. For 2 months, he stayed up all the live long night and worked all the long gone day, writing and recording the entire album. Some songs, like “Black Cat” "Haunted, My Only" and “Olympia2", were written and recorded in the same day. This is one for the headphone junkies. It's a slow burn.
An album to which one might turn down the lights, lay on the floor, and break up with a lover.
It's certainly a lo-fi departure from his previous albums, which were, fundamentally, folk based songs, with starkly different, but respectively hi-fi production. Cuddlebug being, at times, f***ing rock 'n' roll, and at others, a nostalgic acoustic guitar driven album. Balloons, in stark contrast, took an insane turn. It became a future-folk, sexy-depression, dancey - and dark album. Made in a haunted castle in Denmark, it's innumerable layers of naturally reverb soaked vocals from the walls of the castle, and found object rhythms (i.e. hand claps, foot stomps, piano-lid-slamming, percussive breathing, etc... no drums were used at all actually) made a truly unique and new sound like nothing else out there. And that's no exaggeration. It is distinctly its own.
And now! The unmistakable, lo-fi soundscape of Speeddreamer is, likewise, comparable to nothing else, while retaining the undeniable soul and stamp of Danny Malone.
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