{"id":33078,"date":"2019-12-23T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33078"},"modified":"2019-12-22T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T14:47:19","slug":"leya-announces-new-lp-flood-dream-shares-new-single-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33078","title":{"rendered":"LEYA announces new LP \u2018Flood Dream\u2019 + shares new single \u2018Weight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LEYA,\u00a0Marilu Donovan (Eartheater, Aerial East, Julie Byrne)\u00a0and\u00a0Adam Markiewicz (PC Worship, The Dreebs), have shared their new track <em>Weight<\/em> which is lifted from the duo\u2019s forthcoming sophomore LP\u00a0\u2018Flood Dream\u2019\u00a0due out\u00a0March 6th, 2020\u00a0via NNA Tapes.<br><br>The lead single and album opener, which features experimental pop vocalist\/composer\u00a0GABI, hints at the expanded sound of\u00a0\u2018Flood Dream\u2019\u00a0which was written during an extensive touring over four months in the US, Canada &amp; Europe.\u00a0Listen to <em>Weight<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<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\/k9hix7_J8Is?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Flood Dream\u2018\u00a0includes a\u00a0few tracks from their feature-length score of<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Brooke Candy\u2019s queer pornographic film \u2018I Love You\u2019 (made for PornHub\u2019s Visionaries Director\u2019s Club) and follows their debut album<em>,<\/em> \u2018The Fool\u2019.\u00a0<br><br>LEYA will be playing their final show of 2019 at H0L0 in Queens, NY. And in 2020 LEYA will tour extensively including performances at SXSW and a residency at Brooklyn, NY\u2019s Pioneer Works.<br><br>With\u00a0\u2018Flood Dream,\u2018\u00a0LEYA subvert the academic and classical connotations of their instruments, instead reframing them in a DIY punk ethos and favoring intuition over pedagogy to inform their creative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preorder: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/FRRwZh2n74KcV\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/song.link\/FRRwZh2n74KcV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The duo have a couple upcoming shows in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Upcoming Shows<br><\/strong>March 16-22, 2020\u00a0@\u00a0SXSW \u2013 Austin, TX<br>July 2020 @\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerworks.org\/residency\/leya\/\">Pioneer Works &#8211; Brooklyn, NY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More about LEYA?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Framed within a network of outlying artists whose experiments sketch out far-flung deviations from aboveground movements, the work of New York-based duo&nbsp;LEYA&nbsp;stands out as an anomaly that exemplifies the idiosyncratic impulses of the avant fringe. Harpist\/vocalist Marilu Donovan and violinist\/vocalist Adam Markiewicz seem from a sidelong perspective to approximate the languages of neo-classical performance and post-minimalist exploration in their austere, meticulously rendered compositions. In truth, the duo\u2019s own self-perception casts their project closer to the axes of noise and punk than conventional refinement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As formally educated composers acutely aware of the traditions and conventions into which their instruments fit, Donovan and Markiewicz exploit preconceptions and confound expectations by pursuing the most transportive and emotional means of communication with their audience. Just as their peers warp systems of electronics or tropes from the pop and rock traditions,&nbsp;LEYA&nbsp;channel the surface signifiers of orchestral music and 20th century classical composition into deeply personal works that encompass bursts of raw dissonance alongside moments of spectral beauty. The duo\u2019s performances shift the spotlight from the authority figure looming over an ensemble of players to those planted in the corner of a dimly lit basement populated with freaks who can\u2019t help but fall into silence when confronted with the duo\u2019s bewildering stimuli.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an industry obsessed with precise classification, how do we make sense of the ambiguous shadow\u00a0LEYA\u00a0casts over the landscape? The duo reject the tenets of the new music establishment and thrive within a scene of noise transgressors and electronic auteurs. In all of its indulgence and emotional upheaval, their music adapts as easily to the context of arthouse pornography as to a late-night bill populated with no wave acts and performance artists, without ever coming off as a harsh juxtaposition.\u00a0LEYA\u2019s music reveals that the boundaries between these disciplines aren\u2019t boundaries at all \u2014 that everything pours from the same well into different vessels that might be carried off in opposite directions, but that will always returned to a shared source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>LEYA,\u00a0Marilu Donovan (Eartheater, Aerial East, Julie Byrne)\u00a0and\u00a0Adam Markiewicz (PC Worship, The Dreebs), have shared their new track Weight which is lifted from the duo\u2019s forthcoming <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33078\" title=\"LEYA announces new LP \u2018Flood Dream\u2019 + shares new single \u2018Weight\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"On Culture Addicts: LEYA announces new LP \u2018Flood Dream\u2019 + shares new single \u2018Weight\u2019","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},"categories":[23,28,30],"tags":[8772,8771,8773,8774],"class_list":["post-33078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-flood-dream","tag-leya","tag-weight","tag-wierd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4B6A6BC4-944B-483C-8811-0450A5AE58DA.jpeg?fit=2400%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-8Bw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42052,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=42052","url_meta":{"origin":33078,"position":0},"title":"Tan Cologne\u2019s \u2018Unknown Beyond\u2019: A cosmic dream-pop journey","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"April 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Get ready to drift into a universe of sound\u2014Taos-based duo Tan Cologne return with their third LP, \u2018Unknown Beyond,\u2019 arriving June 20 via Labrador Records. 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