Name: Late Slap
Brand: Dana Gavanski

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FTH516LP

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-04-05

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5060626467620

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Black LP

FTH516LPA

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5060626467637

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FTH516CD

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Artist

Dana Gavanski

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

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Full Time Hobby

Full Time Hobby is an independent music label based in London, England. Established in 2004 by Nigel Adams and Wez Westley, the label has been a platform for showcasing diverse and talented artists from various genres. With a focus on quality music production, Full Time Hobby has gained recognition as a leading authority in the industry.

Since its inception, Full Time Hobby has consistently delivered exceptional music releases that have captivated audiences worldwide. The label's commitment to nurturing emerging talent and supporting established artists has earned them a reputation for being at the forefront of cutting-edge music.

With *Nigel Adams* and *Wez Westley* at the helm, Full Time Hobby continues to push boundaries and explore new musical territories. Their passion for discovering unique sounds ensures that every release from the label is a testament to their unwavering dedication to artistic excellence.

Dana Gavanski's debut album "Yesterday Is Gone" is out on March 27th. The album, recorded and produced by Sam Gleason and Mike Lindsay, features the singles "Good Instead of Bad", "One By One", and the BBC 6 Music A-listed track "Catch".

Born in Vancouver to a Serbian family, Dana always had a passion for singing. While studying in Montreal, she discovered her ex-partner's guitar and decided to re-learn how to play. Despite having parents involved in film and painting, Dana was drawn towards making music after spending a summer as her father's assistant in a hotel-turned-office. This experience solidified her desire to pursue music.

Experience Dana Gavanski's unique sound with her captivating debut album that showcases her talent as both a singer and songwriter.

There’s a party in Dana Gavanski’s head and everyone’s invited- well, kind of. Late Slap, Gavanski’s third album, gives voice to the highs and lows of the mindscape in all its joys and terrors, injecting some much needed playfulness into the process of writing about emotionally hard things.&nbsp;

Gavanski fleshed out the demos with her band before taking the album—and the band—to Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP) at MESS, the producer’s studio in Margate. The five-piece, which includes Gavanski’s fellow co-producer James Howard (Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume), tracked the record over five days.

‘Ears Were Growing,’ encapsulates the eighties zeal of Talking Heads or Klaus Nomi, pitching fantasy against reality through a playful lyric about negative self-talk, the domestic interior, and their way of creating a kind of Stockholm Syndrome equal parts comfort and fear.&nbsp;‘Ribbon,’ is a tender song about the recent loss of a childhood friend, looks at the world through the lens of grief, marveling at the way the familiar suddenly loses its meaning and shape. The gently propulsive ‘Song for Rachel’ approaches the same subject matter from another angle, finding release in the simple, straight-to-the-point chorus refrain of “Cause’ you’re gone/ it’s just that I’m lost/ and I don’t know how to feel.” Not knowing how to feel, Gavanski shows us, is as valid and important a feeling as any other.&nbsp;

Late Slap’s unsettling artwork places the album themes in plain sight, Gavanski’s ambiguous, animated expression and screened-out black eyes bearing witness to what might be a revolving exhibition of contradictory images: cute play-fighting kittens giving way to pictures of suffering and war, golden hours dissolving into lost hours never to be reclaimed. But Late Slap is also what its title suggests - a sudden jolt, a shock to the system that seeks to reconnect with the messy flesh-and-thought humanity of simply being human. The album’s tension between cynicism and trust, openness and despair, melodrama and silliness, ultimately invites the listeners in (throw your coat on the bed over there, stranger). It welcomes you at the door, and beckons you to find tenderness in a world doing its best to desensitize us.

Late Slap

Music GB

Discover Late Slap by Dana Gavanski. A playful album that explores the highs and lows of the mindscape. Available in various formats from Full Time Hobby.