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Intramural
12+ albums
electronicindieindie popexperimentalpop tarts
about
To know Denver Dalley, is to love him. The onetime guitarist from Conor Oberst’s Desaparecidos, and frontman of the hiatal Statistics, has been spending the better part of the last decade touring the globe and leaving a trail of close friendships in his wake. Incredibly kind and lacking the aloof pretension that most musicians flaunt, Dalley has established an army of devoted friends and followers everywhere he goes. INTRAMURAL is proof of this. Over four years in the making, This Is A Landslide, is the work of Dalley and co-producer Sam Shacklock. The two became friends in 1998, while Dalley was finishing high school in Tennessee. A few years later they began to collaborate on an electronic music project. According to Dalley, things started quickly, “We tracked my songs almost exclusively in different home bedroom studio set-ups, and I even recorded one of the songs (“Rocket”) in a college dorm room. Wanting to further collaborate and explore, I asked a few friends to sing on some tracks.” Sounds simple enough, and from there, it just snowballed. Well-known singers came and went over the years, and as the songs evolved and improved under the close care of Dalley and Shacklock, so did the finished project. While it took a long time to actually take its final form, This Is A Landslide adds a much welcomed vocal variety and personal warmth to the all-too-cold genre of electronic music. From the downright epic choruses courtesy of The Pink Spiders’ Matt Fricton on “My My, Ten
top songs
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Inspired
7872From the Ground
6363Rocket
5984This is a Landslide
3265My My, Tennessee (with Matt Friction of Pink Spiders)
3256From the Ground (with John Roderick of the Long Winters)
3027This is a Landslide (with Greg Dulli of the Twilight Singers)
3018Spy
2999Queens of Comparison (with Judah Nagler of The Velvet Teen)
29310Grows Stronger (with Leta Lucy)
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