Ears Wide Open: Drip Lines
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L.A.-based Jake O’Neal is a transplanted Coloradan who now makes music under the name Drip Lines, having left behind his indie-rock outfit Summa (so named because he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado) in the Rocky Mountain state. Academics aside, you don’t need to sport a 4.0 to feel the emotion in Drip Lines’ debut EP, “Evolution of a Love.” It’s a concept album that follows the arc of a relationship in six songs boasting heartfelt lyrics and tasteful electronic production. The self-produced release, which came out earlier this year, ends with the song “A(nother) Failed Attempt at Closure,” which ended up being part of an interesting (read: aching) collaboration with his ex-girlfriend Megan St. Clair. She had made a silent video for her MFA thesis at CU based on this concept: “If an act of undressing a new lover creates a beginning, does the act of dressing an obsolete lover create closure?” Writes O’Neal: “Performing in this was extremely emotional and it inspired me to create my own piece of the same title.” Hence, the marriage of the two works in a brilliant “music video.”
||| Stream: “Honeydew” and “A Heart to Plant”
||| Watch: The video for “A(nother) Failed Attempt at Closure” below:
[…] his time over the last four years working on the followup to his debut EP, “Evolution of Love,” while attending law school, L.A.-via-Colorado musician (and electrical engineer) Jake O’Neal, […]