Gibberish – Winter Coat
One of our favorite releases from 2015 comes from the Los Angeles duo of Derek and Lorie Bromley, aka Gibberish.
Their wild, glitchy, and rattly psych-pop tracks on their debut EP, Winter Coat, has been rotated on the cafe’s speakers many times over the past few months.
If we had to pick one track to represent the band’s Animal-Collective-meets-Brian-Eno sound, it would be the song, “Colonies.”
The track stomps along with a hard bass drum; clattering drum sticks; waves of warm, soaring synth riffs; and layers of hazy reverb-heavy vocals, oozing with rich melodies and sweet harmonies, creating a weird and wonderful psychedelic feast of sounds, samples, effects, rhythms, and beats.
“Colonies“ – “Gibberish” from Winter Coat
“Everything on Winter Coat was done by myself on my laptop, using gear I’ve accumulated throughout the years,” says Derek.
“We recorded most of the album using one or two mics at a time, which is how we got the percussion sounding psychedelic and glitched out.
“I used a vocal effects processor and looped drum parts one at a time and then added them all up to give the rhythm section a lush, full, textured sound. I used this technique on a lot of instruments and vocals to varying degrees, so the album would have continuity between songs.”
