New Playlist: "Proximity Clause" by Alex Lavayen of Dancing Tongues
Doesn’t it feel like everyone is making ya’ playlists and sending ya watchlists and read lists? Which is really nice and sweet, but this quarantine is turning some boredom-killing kindling into an out of control forest fire. I’m watching Tiger King just to stop the burning. And I finished that. So now I need trusted sources and reliable culture vultures. I need people who live in quarantine even when we’re allowed to move about the country. Which brings me to Alex Lavayen of Dancing Tongues.
Alex is an authentic one. He’s happier to play music to a dead dive bar of 3 pleasantly engaged strangers than he would a flower crown Coachella Main Stage sell-out. He hangs with the Shit Art Club squad, an artist studio and exhibition space that is basically a non-stop creative party monster as well as a bunch of dudes and dudettes in similar bands who rip (The Gems, Vaguess, Kevin, and Brass Box) and make music that deserves to be played and streamed and celebrated and blasted way more often.
Last night Alex sent me this playlist just because, and I wanted to share. It’s a lot of new bands mixed in with iconic bands for genre context. This aint a random telling you to listen to some shit. When it comes to this, I exclusively trust only Maya Eslami, Hailey Shore, Chelly Rivers, Alex Lavayen, and Rivers Sheehan — which is what you’ll find on the Inherent Bummer Spotify channel for those days you need musical assistance. So get cozy we’re gonna be inside for a while, check this playlist and melt with me. —Travis Ferré
