Larry Gus today shares the stream of his newest LP, ‘I Need New Eyes,’ which is out now on DFA. Originally premiering at Impose, the stream arrives in the form of a full-album lyric video – take a listen via YouTube below.
This fall, Larry Gus will be joining YACHT on a string of US tour dates – list of dates below.
Tour dates:
10/20/15 San Diego, CA – The Casbah*
10/22/15 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom*
10/24/15 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom*
10/25/15 Seattle Washington – Neumos*
10/29/15 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie*
10/31/15 Brooklyn, NY – Palisades
11/05/15 Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade*
11/07/15 Washington, DC – U Street Music Hall*
11/09/15 Boston, MA – The Sinclair*
*with YACHT
Click Here to Listen to Latest Single A Set Of Replies
Click Here to Listen to First Single NP-Complete
More about Larry Gus? Panagiotis Melidis started writing music as Larry Gus (λάρυγγας [larigas], greek for larynx) in 2006, after his previous band, the bass and drums duo Ginger, parted ways. Initially his music combined sample-based constructions and psychedelic pop melodies, merged into an infinitely dense amount of layers and polyrhythms. He soon became known for his energetic and chaotic improvised live performances that involve intricate layering of vocals, drums, and electronics…along with lively stage banter.
On his upcoming DFA album, ‘I Need New Eyes’ (a title inspired by a Marcel Proust misquotation), moving slowly out of his sample-based roots and using clearer songwriting structures as his starting point, he stares intensively into his obsessions, anxieties and inadequacies, namely failure, humiliation, subservience, submission, and comparisons with other musicians careers, always through the prism of a provincial outsider.
Panagiotis studied and worked as a computer engineer, with postgraduate studies at the Music Technology Group in Barcelona, and its with this technical academic background that he applies such interdisciplinary approaches on his production process. For instance, Years Not Living, his DFA debut, was a song cycle directly inspired by the formal algorithmic constraints introduced by Georges Perec in his novel Life A Users Manual. Similar techniques have also been key parts in the numerous remixes hes done over the years (Cut Copy, YACHT, Sandro Perri, Sinkane, Little Boots, WIN WIN), always transforming radically the originals into unknown territories.
My Friend Larry Gus, a documentary shot by Vasilis Katsoupis, premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival at 2015. In 2010, Panagiotis moved from Barcelona back to his small hometown in northern Greece to work on Years Not Living, staying at his family house with his mother, amidst the beginning of the Greek financial crisis. The film documents the relationship of Panagiotis with his craft, his family and his friends, and the steps that eventually led to DFA picking the album, all the way from Veria to Milan and New York.
He has performed at numerous festivals across Europe (Sónar, Pukkelpop, Lowlands, Nuits Sonores etc), he has toured with Cut Copy in the US and he is a Red Bull Music Academy alumni (Tokyo 2014).
Panagiotis currently lives and works in Athens, Greece, where he moved back with his wife and son, after living for five years in Milan, Italy.
Track listing:
1. Black Veil of Fail
2. NP-Complete
3. A Set of Replies
4. Taking The Personal Away
5. Belong to Love
6. All Graphs Exploted
7. The Sun Describes
8. Nazgonya (Paper Strike)
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