Ears Wide Open: GNTLMN
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The first single from the duo GNTLMN sounds like every regret we had in the 1980s. And we had a few. It’s gorgeous, slow-motion melancholy that the new duo is calling “manic depressive dream-pop.” GNTLMN is the nom de tune of Natalia Rogovin (of Social Studies) in alliance with Nima Kazerouni (of So Many Wizards/Crown Plaza). Rogovin’s mournful voice is framed by Kazerouni’s light guitars and guitar-guy falsetto on the EP the duo have made with producer Lewis Pesacov (Best Coast, Fool’s Gold, et al). Overall it’s not far from another brooding pop duo who caught our ears this year, Pr0files. It’s like another prominent local electro-pop artist used to say: “C’mon, get sad.”
||| Stream: “Black Tongue”
||| Live: GNTLMN plays the monthly Blind Date night on Sept 23 at the Bootleg HiFi along with Denny White, Dark Waves, the Black & the White and Tati Ana. GNTLMN also performs Oct. 15 at the Satellite.
[…] and new music in the works. His dream-pop collaboration with Social Studies’ Natalia Rogovin, originally called GNTLMN, has been renamed Human Touch. And he’s got something new going with Allie Bumsted, Corina […]