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Shy Girls - Trivial Motion

Acclaimed bedroom singer/producer Dan Vidmar, aka Sky Girls, presents his anticipated debut album, 'Salt'. Due for release on 20th January 2017 via Hit City USA, the announcement comes in tandem with a brand new track stream; the melodic and impactful 'Trivial Motion', which premiered today via Complex.
 
"From its sweeping John Hughes synths to the tender lyrics beset by an earworm of hook, two things are guaranteed: you will be in your feels, and you will have it on repeat," Complex writes. "Vidmar has refined his ethereal, lush sounds into something magnetic and undeniable."
 
Shy Girls first came to attention in 2013 with his slow burning, sax-tinged 'Under Attack', followed by the release of his buzzed-about Timeshare EP and subsequent 4WZ mixtape. Vidmar has collaborated with artists such as Cyril Hahn, Tei Shi, Rome Fortune, Antwon, Junglepussy, and ODESZA, and has toured with HAIM, Little Dragon, and Maxwell.
 
For an LP likely to be placed in the R&B aisle, 'Salt' is noticeably impressionistic. At times it bears the painterly, frank essence of a Blue/Court and Spark Joni Mitchell. At others, it strides towards the progressive and cinematic. There is a striking viscerality in the crashing percussion and detuned piano of 'I Am Only A Man' and in the hypnotic woodwind outro of 'What If I Can'. The Mournful guitar dressing 'Watercolor Dreams' seems to nod to Ennio Morricone – like a future-Western ballad. And even in the stark ballads that bookend the album, Vidmar delivers swelling sentiment fit for the screen.
 
Despits its sonic magnitude, 'Salt' never surrenders its intimacy. 'Salt' was self-produced by Vidmar, who also played and recorded the majority of the instrumentation. The beautiful result is a testament to craftsmanship executed almost single-handedly by one author. Rife with tender imperfections, at its core Vidmar's heartrending vocals are still as silken as ever, as the singer reaches new heights.
 
Lyrically, Vidmar explores the ambiguous territory in which many so-called "millennials" find themselves, hovering somewhere amidst a pre-internet nostalgia and post-recession tech absorption. He takes and honest and unflinching look at the tension between growth and decay, existential-level FOMO, and the nagging inertia of time.

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