{"id":30030,"date":"2018-10-30T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30030"},"modified":"2019-05-31T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:05:04","slug":"perhapsy-shares-brooding-new-single-34th-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30030","title":{"rendered":"Perhapsy shares brooding new single &#8217;34th &#038; West&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhapsy has shared his brooding new single <em>34th &amp; West<\/em>, and it&#8217;s an aerial shoegaze stunner.\u00a0Paying close homage to 90&#8217;s icons Slowdive\u00a0and My Bloody Valentine, the song channels murky guitars and soft vocals to great effect over propulsive drums. <em>&#8220;This song is a story. It used to be a happy story, now it&#8217;s a sad story. That&#8217;s how stories go sometimes.&#8221;<\/em>, Barber writes, describing a love song seen from the other side of a breakup. Take a listen to\u00a0<em>34th &amp; West <\/em>via Soundcloud below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/479039619&amp;color=%23aaadad&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For years now, musician slash graphic artist Derek Barber has bounced around Michigan and Bay Area music circles, making a name for himself with his jazz inflicted, inimitable guitar work. Currently a touring member of both Bells Atlas and the new Christopher Owen band, Curls, as well as a contributor to Madeline Kenney and Astronauts, etc., Barber has somehow found time to craft dense emo-pop under his moniker Perhapsy.<\/p>\n<p>ICYMI &#8211; Perhapsy&#8217;s first single premiered earlier this month at EARMILK, check it out below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XnGoaxNP1fA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subject\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Perhapsy has shared his brooding new single 34th &amp; West, and it&#8217;s an aerial shoegaze stunner.\u00a0Paying close homage to 90&#8217;s icons Slowdive\u00a0and My Bloody Valentine, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30030\" title=\"Perhapsy shares brooding new single &#8217;34th &#038; West&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,28,5812],"tags":[7767,6010],"class_list":["post-30030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-shoegaze","tag-34th-west","tag-perhapsy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dfcd1999-fe1e-48ce-bdce-c432979c9347.jpeg?fit=5184%2C3456","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-7Om","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30163,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30163","url_meta":{"origin":30030,"position":0},"title":"Perhapsy shares video for &#8216;Neverending Story&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"November 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Musician \/ graphic artist Derek Barber has moved around Michigan and Bay Area music circles, making a name for himself with his jazz inflicted, inimitable guitar work. 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