Name: Passive With Desire
Brand: Choir Boy

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375 Media

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Ltd.Clear Vinyl

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Limited edition

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Format Music EU

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Release date

2023-01-27

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156424

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683950555990

Ltd.Opaque Banana Vinyl

2021-07-02

147107

11586671492

Artist

Choir Boy

Label EU

Dais

Genre EU

New Wave / Post Punk

Dais Records is an independent American record label founded by Gibby Miller and Ryan Martin in 2007. Based in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York, Dais Records operates as a genre-agnostic label with a focus on experimental and avant-garde music. The label represents both emerging and established active artists while also curating rare and out of print material for reissue projects. Dais Records exclusively distributes its releases through Secretly Distribution.

Dream pop / synth pop band from Salt Lake City, UT 

Choir Boy is Adam Klopp on vocals, Chaz Costello on bass, Jeff Kleinman on saxophone and keyboard, and Michael Paulsen on guitar.

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For fans of Arthur Russell and Hidden Cameras. Reissue of debut album. Since his recording debut as Choir Boy in 2016, Adam Klopp mined a sound swirls 1980s synth noir with captivating, cinematic songs sweeping with pensive sorrow and glowing hope. As a former member of the Mormon faith, Klopp spent his youth both in the pews of his place of worship, but also churning through DIY punk venues, before leaving the sect in the thick of a mission in Tahiti. The duality of faith and fiction are central to the lush explorations on his debut album Passive With Desire. Recorded at Studio Studio Dada, the album’s tracks permuted as bedroom sketches, awash with camp, the sting of loss, and allusions to halcyon days of nocturnal, electronic driven pop. Retaining elements of Klopp’s original demos, Passive With Desire was recorded with a full band and polished with trumpet, strings, as well as archival samples calling back to Klopp’s hazy youth. Engineered by Klopp, Bret Meisenbach, and Stephen Cope, Passive With Desire is the entry point to Choir Boy’s world of emotive wit, novella kissed lyricism, and bouncy, synth-forward takes on traditional song writing bound by the universal themes of loss, desire, evolution, and exploration. Now available for the first time in wide release, Passive With Desire is a proper introduction to Klopp’s unique storytelling, orated by his full, rangeful vocals. CD - The expanded CD version comes with a 12-page lyric booklet, and combines the album with seven bonus tracks, including the Sunday Light EP and tracks from the limited Part Time Punks cassette. LP - Standard Black Vinyl with Download.LP+ - Limited to 400 Copies on Metallic Red with Download.

Passive With Desire

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