Dustin Lovelis “Stay Calm Ezra” Single/Video via New Noise Magazine
Dustin Lovelis ‘In Your Chamber’ LP out Today on Park The Van
Dustin Lovelis Shares Striking Album Single/Video “Stay Calm Ezra” via New Noise Magazine
New Album In Your Chamber out Today
on Park The Van Records
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Stream: “Tara the Android” | “Plastic Flowers” | “Anecdote”
Hometown Release Show w/ The Blank Tapes Tonight @ Art Theatre of Long Beach
Photo Credit: Will Bater
“Singer-songwriter Dustin Lovelis has always found space for blissful textures and lively experimentation in his explorations of ’60s and ’70s psychedelic rock. He’s also found a way to craft songs that are starkly relevant to this era, whether as mere observer of dystopian chaos or as a diarist assigning wider meaning to his personal travails.” – Buzzbands.la
Today, Long Beach based composer, performer, and multi-instrumentalist Dustin Lovelis has released his new album In Your Chamber on Park The Van Records, alongside striking single/video “Stay Calm Ezra” debuted with New Noise Magazine. The track is reminiscent yet timeless, with classic four-piece instrumentation and the support of continuous vocal harmonies. The lyrics discuss sentimentality for a lost relationship, and the video closely matches this nostalgic sound. The home movie-style film simultaneously follows two timelines– a fantasy in which Lovelis is a father of a young boy, and a reality in which he is not. Lovelis’s audio and visual work broach the complicated and often unspoken feelings that come with the possibility of what could have been.
Lovelis shares, “Stay Calm, Ezra is about 2 people I loved and admired but never had a chance to meet. A well respected musician that I had only spoken to over the phone, and my unborn son Ezra, whom I had only spoken to through the womb. The world lost both of them way too soon and around the same time. Stay Calm, Ezra is a plea for them to find each other, wherever they may be.”
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Until recently, Dustin Lovelis spent his life kneeling at the altar of the pop song. Having spent the better part of his teens and twenties cutting his teeth in ensembles like The Fling, he opted to set out on his own. His first solo release Dimensions came in 2015, sounding something like a psych-rock daydream, followed in 2017 by Been Hit Before, the wake-up slap from said daydream. Despite all his experience, Lovelis’ newest release In Your Chamber feels most like a debut. Stepping out of his comfort zone and into his subconscious, his latest release is decidedly less psychedelic and more psychology, or as he puts it, “A personal conversation with my tragedies.” His usual clever, and sometimes cutting, songwriting style took a turn for earnest and heartfelt, inviting the listener into eavesdrop on songs that are so explicitly vulnerable and genuine, one may feel they are sitting directly across from him. Dustin will be performing in celebration of the release tonight at Art Theatre of Long Beach with The Blank Tapes. Tickets here. Don’t miss your chance to see him live!
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