News Gems
This Washington DC duo use isolation and Beach House influences to help produce remarkable, dazzling dream-pop.
Name
: GEMS
Based: Washington DC
Listen: Soundcloud.com/gems-band
Similar to: Howling Bells, Beach House
Try holing yourself up in a studio and emerging with a series of introductory tracks as good as GEMS’ initial efforts. You can read all the studio manuals you want, raid the library for every production trick in the book. That doesn’t mean you’ll write tracks as fully realised as ‘Void Moon’, ‘Heavy Lines’ or ‘Golden Years’.
The remarkable thing about GEMS’ is this Washington DC duo are labelling the latter two pieces as ‘demos’. They spent time this past summer in a beach house on the Outer Banks. Cutting off all ties can often bring clarity. Turning off Twitter, logging out of email and even putting the phone on silent: Those actions are often all that’s required to spur on creativity. But a whole month in isolation can drive you insane. Fortunately for GEMS they returned with not only an acceptable level of sanity, but also a divine collection of songs; eye-opening and wondrous.
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GEMS rework Bo Rocha’s ‘Tangerine Flake’
The Washington duo put a jutting, sharp-edged spin on the slow-burning original.
7th October 2015, 12:00am
GEMS announce debut album ‘Kill The One You Love’, share lead single ‘Living as a Ghost’
The Washington D.C. duo will release their first full-length on 30th October through Carpark Records.
12th August 2015, 12:00am
This Week In New Music (14th June 2014)
Neu rounds up the best new music of the past week, featuring FAMY and GEMS.
14th June 2014, 12:00am
Gems stream standalone new track ‘Scars’
DC duo Gems are streaming a new song ahead of their tour with Hundred Waters.
12th June 2014, 12:00am
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