Alan Watts’ Ep on Soundcloud
aaamusic | On 29, Apr 2012
In a year, Alan Watts shifted shapes three times. They were founded in the basement of Party Expo (Bushwick) last spring, on a strict diet of industrial shoegaze (Thank You, Spectral Void EP). By fall they were consumed with finding the communal meeting point of glossy rave and the ghosts of No New York (“Post-Fantasy”).
For the recording of …Is The Fantasy Band, the crew ventured from bong-ripped basement chaos to a more ecstatic set of sounds: crate dug beats, über bass, trance guitar, howling angels, and the casio funk, all of which they wrapped up and recorded live at Shea Stadium on one night last November. (Additional vocals by Laura Catalano, recorded/mixed by Adam Reich, mastered by Sarah Register).
M. Watts, P. Watts, and J. Watts would like to thank the years 1913 and 2016, and the letters P and F. Peace to boom bap and Pizza the Hut. Ghosts in the machine are real.
