Cloud Safari is the moniker of Pennsylvania indie synth pop musician Travis Pierson, a 21-year-old songwriter, singer and musician based out of State College who began writing and recording his own guitar and synth pop songs as a teen. premies
His new single, “Pleasin’ You,” premiering today on IRC, is a watery blend of chilled out, reverb-heavy psych pop rock, swimming in waves of heavily distorted vocals, melodic grooves, swaying rhythms, and a Steely Dan-like electric guitar jam set against a backdrop of warm synths and an understated beat throughout. It’s the perfect lazy summer day track.
“It was a song that I wrote the basic melody to on an acoustic guitar a long time ago,” he says, “but I didn’t fully conceive all the parts until about a year ago. It was one of the first songs I’ve ever written and recorded. It was written to my girlfriend as something of a reassurance when she is upset or something in life goes wrong.”
“Pleasin’ You” is the first single from Cloud Safari’s upcoming EP to be released sometime this fall.
Pierson made a DIY splash on Soundcloud late last summer with a number of singles, including January’s “Sunset Park,” and last fall’s “Wonderer,” amassing an impressive 10,000+ streams and plays online and over 300 likes on Soundcloud.
Pierson played in several bands during high school and has been writing music since his early teens.
He officially launched Cloud Safari in the fall of 2015 after experimenting with another moniker – Oceans – that didn’t work for him because it made it too difficult for his followers to find him, and there were too many existing bands named the same. That’s when Pierson came up with what we think is a creative, non-run-of-the-mill moniker; Cloud Safari. His top musical influences include Pink Floyd, Tame Impala, MGMT, and Marc Demarco.
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