Song You Need: LSDXOXO and Eartheater’s tender ode to vampiric love
Given that the May 2021 launch of his breakout crossover EP Dedicated 2 Disrespect, Raushaan Glasgow (LSDXOXO) has been jet-location throughout Europe as a DJ, having his fledgling label and “pleasure-loving” get together promotion company Floorgasm on the highway and dropping a remix of the tape in March. He’s also been doing work on a totally refurbished stay established, which he’ll premier this Friday at Sónar 2022 in Barcelona, and his debut LP, title and launch day TBA. The Philadelphia-born, Berlin-primarily based producer and — a lot more lately — singer place out “DRaiN,” his initially providing from the history, in April. And today, he’s supplying the entire world it is second flavor in “Demons,” a duet with Ridgewood, Queens’ resident artwork-pop siren, Eartheater.
The new track is a scarce uptempo ballad that finds Glasgow harmonizing guiding his personal quavering guide vocal, atop a techno drum machine sped up to Baltimore club velocity and an oozing, ominous synth mattress. “Baby when you consider the shape of a demon / I can truly feel wish teethin’ / Drop into my black gap heart, sink your tooth in / Changin’ everything I think in,” he sings, describing an infatuation so intense it verges on the sinister. Eartheater joins afterwards, offering her facet of the tale — “I come to feel like a overseas sacrificial lamb” — in breathy, sonorous tones.
“Demons is an ode to dim, all-consuming like,” Glasgow clarifies. “The exchange that can take place amongst two passionate fans can be quite vampiric. Is that so bad, if it is what the two functions want?”
In the movie, directed by Eartheater, the duo collide frequently in many rooms across a burning city, their bodies getting to be just one in a symbolic ritual of mutually damaging lovemaking. Check out it below.
