{"id":12294,"date":"2015-02-04T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=12294"},"modified":"2015-10-16T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:53:42","slug":"smiling-disease-announce-debut-album-reveals-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=12294","title":{"rendered":"Smiling Disease announce debut album + reveals new single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smiling Disease (AKA Oliver Moss, also in <a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/2015\/01\/29\/evans-death-shares-new-track-forthcoming-album\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evans the Death<\/a>) is proud to announce their official debut album: a best-of compilation spanning 6 years of esoteric bedroom brilliance. &#8216;Beach Bodies: 2008-2014&#8217; will be out in March on cassette and digitally via DIY label Memorials of Distinction. Oliver has been quietly writing music over the last 6 years &#8211; all of which painstakingly recorded through a Skype microphone into Audacity. Watch the video for the first single <em>Double Locked<\/em> via YouTube or download the track for free via Bandcamp below.<\/p>\n<p><code><!--more--><\/code><\/p>\n<p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XRtX3wbtULs&#8221; theme=&#8221;light&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3783308606\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=ffffff\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com\/album\/beach-bodies-2008-2014\">Beach Bodies: 2008-2014 by Smiling Disease<\/a><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The resulting music is a genre sprawling pastiche of shimmering shoegaze, IDM, &#8217;60s psychedelia, trip-hop, acid house, goth, ambient, and art pop. &#8216;Beach Bodies&#8217; comes with an enormous .zip folder of bonus material. 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