Name: Raw Honey
Brand: Drugdealer

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MEX2482

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-04-19

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The Orchard

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Standard:20

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184923124828

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Drugdealer

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Psychedelic

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Mexican Summer

Drugdealer is an artist known for their unique blend of psychedelic pop and indie rock. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of musical styles, they create music that is both nostalgic and innovative. With dreamy melodies, lush instrumentation, and introspective lyrics, Drugdealer's music transports listeners to another world.

Similar artists to Drugdealer include Soft Hair, Mild High Club, Loving, Sugar Candy Mountain, Connan Mockasin, Dumbo Gets Mad, Sam Evian, Foxygen, Jerry Paper, Whitney, Maston,TOPS,Babe Rainbow ,Robert Lester Folsom ,Orions Belte ,Drug Cabin ,Swim Mountain,Kate Bollinger,Ariel Pink,and Melody's Echo Chamber.

Whether you're a fan of psychedelic sounds or simply appreciate well-crafted songs with a touch of nostalgia,Durgdealer's music is sure to captivate you. Their unique style and captivating live performances have earned them a dedicated following around the world. Discover the enchanting world of *Drugdealer* today!

Mexican Summer is an independent record label based out of Brooklyn, NY. They release the work of adventurous musicians without the limitations of genre or form. Mexican Summer operates in tandem with Anthology, a book publisher and archival record label. Anthology focuses on responsibly licensed material, compelling design, and definitive presentation.

In an era when networked access to information is nearly universal and wearing influences on your sleeve is normalised, it often feels like everything’s been done. Which begs the questions: What’s the point of creating? Does the world need another still life of fruit? Another film about love? Does the world need another melody?

On Raw Honey, his second album as Drugdealer, Michael Collins colours these existential conundrums with lush arrangements, memetic melodies, and a vulnerable tunefulness that tries to make sense of self-doubt and connected loneliness in our shared simulacra.

Collins, who never played an instrument, let alone received musical training in any formal capacity, began experimenting with sounds in 2009 after traversing the US on freight trains. After a few years crafting abstract sampledelia, he decided to forgo his experimental exercises in favor of teaching himself how to write the traditional song. In doing so, he made the decision to approach songwriting from the perspective of a listener, rather than a “musician.”

In 2013, Collins headed west and enmeshed himself in the Los Angeles underground scene. It was then that he began collaborating with players in the orbit of Ariel Pink, slowly over time crafting what would become Drugdealer’s debut album, The End of Comedy, a collection of sunlit songs as indebted to Laurel Canyon psych pop as it is Bacharian orchestration.

Raw Honey continues where The End of Comedy left off, with Collins once again leading an ace crew of collaborators to coalesce the spirit of Drugdealer’s classically modern pop. Built on the foundation of a creative partnership between Collins, Sasha Winn (vocals) and Shags Chamberlain (bass, production), Drugdealer is more a collective than band. Raw Honey features contributions of Josh Da Costa (drums), Jackson MacIntosh (guitar), Danny Garcia (guitar), Michael Long (lead guitar), and Benjamin Schwab (backing vocals, guitar, organ, piano, wurlitzer), as well as guest vocalists like country balladeer Dougie Poole (“Wild Motion”), Harley Hill-Richmond (“Lonely”), and frequent collaborator Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood) whose dulcet tones sing low before soaring on Honey, a track as silky as the nectar itself.

Throughout Raw Honey, Collins and crew display their influences as a new tapestry, one woven with the recycled fibers from thousands of tapestries that have coloured our collective listening histories. As evidenced throughout Raw Honey, Collins has an ear for penning numbers that would sound as at home on Classic Rock radio as they would at Zebulon in Los Angeles, where any of the contributors to Raw Honey could, perhaps, be found on any night of the week, on stage, or in the audience supporting another Angelino’s modern pop aspirations.

Rather than hiding behind a curtain or casually sidestepping AOR tropes, Raw Honey adheres to a modern kind of creation — one that cultivates influences and espouses reverence. An honest totem, Raw Honey isn’t tangled up in social norms, with Collins preferring to air his self-doubt as a northern star to guide like-minded people wherever they need to go.