{"id":36294,"date":"2021-04-08T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36294"},"modified":"2021-04-03T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T11:53:36","slug":"douglas-releases-debut-album-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36294","title":{"rendered":"Douglas releases debut album ‘Ashes’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Douglas has released \u2018Ashes,\u2019 the new solo experimental, shoegaze\/electronica project from Amy Douglas White, a veteran LA-based singer, songwriter and musician. Previously best known for contributing background vocals on M83’s seminal album \u2018Hurry Up, We\u2019re Dreaming\u2019 and performing alongside Mariqueen Maandig Reznor in West Indian Girl, \u2018Ashes\u2019 brims with emotionally explosive, cinematic vignettes, melding together sadness and joy through the lens of ethereal electronica, with Douglas\u2019 own versatile and expressive vocals always a throughline. Dense with pulsing rhythms and celestial layers of vocals, Douglas\u2019s ambient pop is a hybrid of genres, rooted in melodic hooks, and yet rich with abstraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Ashes\u2019 track <\/span>lis<\/span>t<\/strong>
1. Pent 
2. Come with Me 
3. Clouds 
4. Seventeen 
5. Dime 
6. Subplay 
7. Most Days 
8. Alter Ego 
9. Melod\u00eda 
10. Do You Love Me 
11. Cigarettes 
12. Tinok<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy\/Stream \u2018Ashes\u2019 here: https:\/\/douglas.fanlink.to\/ashes<\/a>

To mark its release, Douglas is sharing a compelling short film set to the album track Alter Ego<\/em>. Among the most cinematic tracks on \u2018Ashes,\u2019 Alter Ego<\/em> features an alluring slow burn of Rhodes keyboard and Roland JX-3P synths set to ignite. The accompanying video burrows deep into the unspoken emotions evoked by the instrumental, depicting a poignant vignette in a boy\u2019s adolescent life. In the short film, starring young actor Daniel Hoffman, a boy ventures out from his troubled household one evening and stumbles upon his older brother\u2019s secret sexuality, evoking the song\u2019s theme of hidden identity. 

Shot on 35mm film by acclaimed filmmaker Jac Cron who creates films centered around human connection, particularly within the LGBTQIA+ community, she was struck by the song\u2019s cinematic resonance and inspired to create the video that tells a fictional (but all-too-real) story about how identity, acceptance, societal pressure and vulnerability affect members of their community. It\u2019s a powerful final statement from Douglas and her debut album \u2018Ashes\u2019. Watch the video via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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