Expensive Looks is the project of Alec Feld. On January 17, Feld will release Expensive Looks' debut album, Dark Matters, through the new label Group Tightener. Dark Matters is a dance album featuring elements of Chicago house, disco, old Motown stuff and a smattering of Feld's parents’ psych records, as well as “trashy ’90s dance.”
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Dark Matters flows continuously across nine tracks, touching on elements of all the music Feld grew up on: hypnotic house, textured minimalism, and the gorgeous moment of musical epiphany that happens when a beat drops out and all that’s left is the aural equivalent of taking a deep breath and staring at the stars. It’s a dance record with the sort of scrappy, open heart that can only come from someone like Feld. Expensive Looks is all encompassing, it draws from all genres without border, pulling everything into one warped but pointed mass. “Dark Matters comes into play as confusion and constant bipolar shifts all for the pursuit of happiness,” Feld says. “I kill for euphoria and use it as a venue to get that polar-shifting depressive state across. This isn’t about me not being happy, it’s more about my frustration with the pursuit of happiness. I’m also kind of a space nut. There is little logic behind what ‘dark matter’ is and how it works.”
Track Listing:
01. Your Dreams Our Week
02. Nothing More
03. Felt Up
04. Nightfalls
05. Tracewave
06. Be My Own
07. Sea/Air
08. Moving Visions
09. Vanishers
Nothing More by Expensive Looks
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