Clarity Lost is the newest release from Los Angeles-based producer and electronic music artist Peter "Peas" McEvilley. It is the anticipated follow-up to his album Filters, which spent two weeks at number three on the iTunes electronic music charts, was on the college music charts' top 15 for four weeks, and saw several tracks licensed for a variety of network television shows.
As a producer, McEvilley recently worked on a custom CD of laid-back house music tracks, New York Lounge, for specialty gift retailer, Brookstone. He has also worked as a producer/writer on several albums for Quango Music Group.
McEvilley's music has been featured on soundtracks and in films including Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Deuce Bigalow, The House Bunny, Grandma's Boy, and many more. He recently finished scoring the forthcoming feature film, Killing Leonard Riley. His television credits include Desperate Housewives, CSI:NY, 8 Simple Rules, Men in Trees, Bones, Real World/Road Rules, Huff, Dirt, One Life to Live, General Hospital, All My Children, Jockeys, and many others.
While the title of his new release might be Clarity Lost, for anyone listening, clarity is definitely found in these eleven tracks, as we hear Peas hone his skills and present a unique musical vision. This DJ is a master at getting listeners in the groove. With highlights including "Too Many Hustlers" and the title cut, Peas delivers an album full of intense beats, from dance floor bangers to headphone jams. Clarity Lost is a perfect addition to the collection of any serious fan of electronica.
"TEST SHOT STARFISH" by Test shot starfish was released from KANPAI Records and received 5 STAR review by CD Baby.
Here is the review by CD Baby:
From an LA duo that thrives on live performances as much as they do on their recordings and multimedia projects, this IDM release has just enough sweet sparkling pop melody to put a fizz in your ears, but complexity in beat and rhythm use the double-sided tape to keep you seated. The perspective here is almost visual as much as aural, textural as much as vibration; get the headphones, close your eyes... before long, peaks of blip are crumbling and crackling over ribbons of synth, and everything is flowing down the ambient low end into a thump gulch. While the whole album seems to resemble a marriage between perennial CD Baby favorites Little Plastic Pilots and Ilkae (in other words, it can be compared to Plaid, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada), it is not identical to them. All that and they're often asked to remix everything from Coldplay to Snoop.
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