PRESS RELEASE: New Music Friday: iT Boy's cassette loop EP
With The Nail House EP,
iT Boy confronts the personal hardships that have shaped his artistic journey
Brooklyn-based iT Boy’s The Nail House EP is out now on all digital platforms. Each track was built around its own single cassette loop.
“Most of the sounds recorded onto each loop derive their tonality from musical cryptograms of words, phrases, and names of a specific significance," explains iT Boy's Theo Baer. "These compositions are a portrait of my deepest inspirations and the personal hardships that have shaped my artistic journey.”
Using the Chinese term for a home with tenants who refuse to leave and make space for real estate development, the EP's title refers to Baer's own experience navigating the pressures of gentrification. Over the course of a year of writing and recording this project, he says, “my home and work studio of five years became a “Nail House” in its own right. I was finally evicted shortly after finishing these works.”
Baer’s response to these circumstances is an emotional narrative layered with sophisticated textures and moody, meditative gravitas.
Available now at Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Join Bec Plexus's 24-hour livestream party!
STICKLIP, a creative "confession booth" in album form from Bec Plexus, dropped April 24. What better way to celebrate than with a 24-hour-long slumber party livestream hosted by Bec Plexus and bandmate Allison Wright. Bec + friends will premiere ten (!) new STICKLIP music videos as album collaborators from across the globe join in for performances and chats. Add some games and gossip and you know it: you won’t want to go to bed either.
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