Name: Dizzy Strange Summer
Brand: Genevieve Artadi

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BF098

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Black

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Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-07-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

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Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5054429139624

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Genevieve Artadi 

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Brainfeeder

Brainfeeder is a record label that is run by Flying Lotus. It is manufactured, marketed, and distributed by Ninja Tune outside of the U.S.A.

Since its inception, Brainfeeder has been at the forefront of pushing boundaries in electronic music. With Flying Lotus at the helm, the label has become synonymous with innovation and experimentation.

Brainfeeder's roster boasts an impressive lineup of talented artists who have carved their own unique paths in the industry. From Thundercat's soulful basslines to Kamasi Washington's jazz-infused compositions, each artist brings their own distinct flavor to the label.

On Dizzy Strange Summer, Genevieve Artadi offers a window into her ad-lib creativity and the LA community where it’s been nurtured. This is the vocalist, composer and producer’s second solo album, and it sees her stake out her own ground outside of her other groups Knower, Expensive Magnets and Everything’s Under Control. She brings her own slant to the DIY LA scene that she’s grown up in, melding influences from jazz, psychedelia, bossa nova and avant-garde electronics. Dizzy Strange Summer marks not only Artadi’s debut on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint, but her first self-produced project released on any record label.

An impulsive spirit underwrites every part of the album, something reflected in the energy Genevieve devotes to create the videos to accompany them. It’s an honest, unmediated reflection of the period in which she created the music, supported by a close circle of like-minded musical friends including - but not limited to - Louis Cole (Brainfeeder), Sam Wilkes (Leaving Records), Henry Halliwell, Daniel Sunshine, Adam Weissman (Pollyn / Real Bad Man), Ruslan Sirota, Ross Garren, David Binney and Jacob Mann — each of whom she tapped up to add their flavour to songs where she felt their styles or talents aligned. Most tracks would begin life on her laptop, be sent to a friend for them to add their spin to it, before coming back to Artadi to be elevated to their final form. 

Drawing inspiration from the tumult around her and she relished the opportunity to express herself uninhibited by the shackles of compromise associated with collaboration. Crucially, this often means a silly, playful side being played off against a serious one; but she doesn’t think the former undercuts the latter, seeing the two as vital shared ingredients to what she does. 

Dizzy Strange Summer revels in juxtapositions, unleashing high energy assaults at full tilt before giving way to soft-focus melancholia, allowing Genevieve to show off the full spectrum of her vocal prowess. On the first single Living Like I Know I’m Gonna Die for example, her delivery is beautifully understated and airy: “Living like the future is a guess, living like I’m smaller than a speck”. “I sing it softly ‘cos it’s an internal proclamation... a message to myself,” she explains. She displays this vulnerability on All I Want For Now, Before The Dark and Will You Tell Me too - the later a stunning duet with harp. Elsewhere, on Godzillaaaa for example, her delivery is informed by ESG and Talking Heads, stomping past on a stark riddim in a whirlwind of distorted percussion and synths.

Dizzy Strange Summer

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