Los Angeles-via-Pennsylvania multi-instrumental singer and home recordist Evan Voytas — sort of a more clean-cut Ariel Pink — creates strange synth-pop/space-disco outings that feel danceable but private and insular. The idea’s explored in the video for his most recent single “I Run With You, Spirit Animal.” The clip was directed by Carlos Charlie Perez, who recently finished the upcoming Vampire Weekend video and shot those tongue-in-cheek promos that showed up on ithinkuracontra.com. You’ll find that playfulness, here as well, after Voytas locates a place to rest his plank of wood while he tries on sunglasses and animal masks.
For behind closed doors:
You’ll hear more at MySpace. The “I Run With You, Spirit Animal” single looks like this:
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As much as I want to hate this it’s too damn catchy. I am conflicted, I really am.
i was torn at first as well…but then when the song was finishing, it occurred to me that it was incredibly repetitve throughout the 3 minutes that i sat through it. plus, his voice makes me want to light his hair on fire or something and i dont like doing things like that to people.
so I’ll go with hating it.
He has a show tonight at the Bootleg Theater in LA.
I enjoy most of his music as it can prove to be incredibly infectious, like the amazing “Getting Higher” or even better “Give It Back”. This song doesn’t really do it for me, sounds like a conceptual sound, and the video seems forced. I think the video would have been better if the whole thing was like the last 10 seconds. Still, I am still VERY interested to hear a full LP from him!
i’m into this…
CC Perez likes his masks. Check out his vid for Fang Island’s “Daisy” with its masks of US presidents. Good stuff.
saw him open up for vampire weekend in lomita. so good!