Name: Subservient
Brand: Larry Gus

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DFA2644cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-10-25

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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829732264425

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

DFA2644lp

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Black Vinyl

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829732264418

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

Artist

Larry Gus

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Greek songwriter, singer, performer, and producer Larry Gus was born in Veria, Greece. He began writing music under the name Larry Gus in 2006 after his previous band Ginger disbanded. In 2010, he left his engineering studies in Barcelona to pursue his dream of being a musician and returned to Veria.
The pseudonym Larry Gus is a play on words: Larygas translates to Λάρυγγας which means Larynx in Greek.
Similar artists to Larry Gus include Baby Guru, Stereo Nova, K. BHTA, The Boy, Lena Platonos, Nalyssa Green, Melentini, The Callas, λάμδα /Lamda, LogOut,
Echo Tides,Dury Dava,Vassilikos,Kόρε. Ύδρο., Mary & The Boy,Xaxakes,Pan Pan ,Παιδί Τραύμα,Mazoha,and Δεσποινίς Τρίχρωμη.

Larry Gus (real name Panagiotis Melidis) returns to DFA with Subservient, his fourth release for the label. More pop-oriented than his previous albums, Subservient is a lush combination of "crisis funk pop and trad Mediterranean grooves." Lyrics sung in Greek and English address Larry’s overwhelming struggles with being a father, husband, artist, and human in 2019. In the artist’s own words, this album is about "trying to understand empathy and act with it on everyday life," as well as "the imperative of empathy above everything else." Subservient is sample-free, a first for Larry, who plays every instrument himself: a drum kit, an SM57 microphone, a guitar, a bass, a TE OP-1 synthesizer, and a Roland JV-1010 synth module. This is fourth-world power pop, as if Alex Chilton was produced by Eno and Hassell. The thoughtful, upbeat arrangements and gentle vocals are spacious and warm, and tend to offset whatever darker tone the lyrics might imply. Larry confronts more acute tensions, such as being a father in Greece during the crisis, and the parallels of a child’s sicknesses and adult ailments, as well as larger, more existential pressures - the grasp of nostalgia, the weight and meaning of making decisions, and the desire to move from hermeticism towards sociability. The record graciously explores the nuance that can be found within delineated lines: pop and folk music, rooted in Greek tradition; internal anxieties and empathy expressed outward; the tightrope struggle of living in the present and wallowing in the past. Larry will also be releasing a 7-inch single alongside the album, which features two A-sides, "Kerkis (Judas-Tree)" and "Foreign Steps," from the same recording sessions as Subservient. The lyrics to "Kerkis (Judas-Tree)" were written by Efthimis Filippou, an award-winning screenwriter known for his work with director Yorgos Lanthimos on films like Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The 7-inch precedes an upcoming audio play, written by Efthimis and scored by Larry, to be produced with the Onassis Stegi (AKA Cultural Center) sometime next year. The audio play will be released on DFA in 2020.

Subservient

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