1st Base Runner Is Back With a Stunning New EP and Video

Immediately after having adopted him for two many years and by means of a selection of permutations of releases, 1 point we at YEDM can say about 1st Foundation Runner (Tim Husmann) is he never ceases to surprise. Hardly ever skimping on high-quality, the Austin songwriter and producer has operate as a result of loads of designs and subgenres, not to point out labels, launch buildings and distro. Now settled on his own Souvenir Sound imprint, His hottest EP Light-weight Roars is nonetheless crammed with loads of surprises, distinctive types and heavy emotion.

1st Base Runner is one particular of those artists who can discover and experiment to his heart’s motivation but nonetheless someway have a distinct main design, and that’s surely what we see on Light-weight Roars. Vacillating between a type of grungy edition of The Overcome and Tom Waits post punk, with a large dose of creepy aspiration pop (imagine post-Crystal Castles Alice Glass), this EP is made up of shock following shock for supporters although nevertheless currently being unflinchingly 1st Base Runner.

The aptly named EP opener “In the Beginning” has an eerie and minimum opening in advance of hefty, theatrical drums introduce that Heal nod with Fascination Avenue-design guitars and seem style. As always, the tough, heady vocals include a little bit of grunge or Tom Waits to the blend, and transitioning into the considerably more open and natural-sounding “Pushing Away,” the Waits comparison retains a lot more weight for this specific EP. The put up punk is hefty (triple pun score!) with this observe, the seem style and design open and vacant and even a little bit deadened in the drums, even though they still have that complexity to tie into the initial music.

But anther shock will come with “Dead Wooden,” as some surf rock/psychobilly peeks through in the guitars and type of generates a sensation of driftwood, particularly when the observe transitions from mainly negligible rock to a fuller, more electronic vibe via some properly-put synths and audio style. 1st Base Runner has a special way of preserving the EDM in his get the job done, even when its at its most acoustic and seemingly sonically sparse, and both equally “Dead Wood” and its successor, the flippantly pop-y “Give Up the End” are great illustrations of this.

Gentle Roars closes with the contemplative “Planter,” for which 1st Foundation Runner when all over again teamed up with innovative director Gilly Dent, who’s popular, of program, for his function with Radiohead on the “King of Limbs” and labored on two other videos with Husmann, the animated masterpiece “Crack Even” and the IMDB-worthy “Person Overboard.” Adhering to the acoustic-morphed-digital timeline of the track, the video clip for “Planter” commences off hyper-authentic, with grainy, black and white closeup pictures of Husmann. The shorts distort additional and a lot more as the keep track of goes on, on the other hand, transferring with the emotion of the music and lyrics. The information looks to be tied up in self-notion, making options about who just one wants to be both of those in lifetime and in the songs field, and the psychological bodyweight that carries. The video definitely drives these points residence in stark, almost excruciating realism. A great visible representation of the track.

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The rawness of 1st Base Runner’s work allways stands out, as does his ability with design and style and output. Light-weight Roars is both of those a continuation of that rawness and an expansion of it into different kinds and new audio structure to connote even deeper and extra advanced inner thoughts. This is possibly for the reason that he feels freer to produce what he wishes with his individual label and distro, or just the following move in what has already been a fascinating musical journey for this job, but possibly way Husmann’s emitional honesty and skill are the moment yet again the most significant surprises for his expanding audience.

Light Roars is out now and can be streamed on Spotify or purchased on Bandcamp or the Souvenir Audio web-site. For far more of 1st Base Runner’s video clips, examine out his YouTube channel.