Available on Paper+Sound records. LISTEN & PURCHASE HERE:
dirtyinputs1.bandcamp.com/album/the-prism
Dirty Inputs is Aaron Dawson, an electronic musician and video artist based in Toronto, Canada. Dawson was part of the Toronto ambient drone collective Off The International Radar and has shared the stage with the likes of Holy Fuck, A Place To Bury Strangers, Junior Boys, Hauschka, Growing, Nadja, Nonotak, God Is An Astronaut, Quintron and many others. Dirty Inputs’ euphoric synth-driven soundscapes search for the realm between the beautiful and the terrifying, creating a body of work that is often dark and brooding, and other times joyful and emotional.
"Dirty Inputs is all about luscious soundscapes built with synthesizers. Rarely has music sounded this epic and inspiring, with an unmatched intensity."
- Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival
"Dirty Inputs treads the territory between spectral ambient works and the synthesized soundscapes of krautrock."
- Burn Down The Capital
The Prism is Dirty Inputs' ninth release, and third on Toronto label Paper+Sound.
The Prism is an album about controlling your perception. Can you change your mood, your experience or your current situation by changing the way you perceive things? Is your mind powerful enough to shape your reality? Dirty Inputs retreats into the dark recesses of the inner sanctum to find out, and invites you on a psychedelic voyage through a personal phantasmagoria.
The Prism shifts and changes, leading through haunted corridors only to suddenly open up into unexpected chasms filled with crystal wonders. Celestial opener
The Slow Drop reaches up to the heavens, only to be dragged back down to the Abyss on the synth-laden Heavy Maybe (featuring an ethereal video directed by Nyles Miszczyk).
Field of Stars and Notification sees Dirty Inputs go pop, a rare occasion indeed, invoking shades of Flying Saucer Attack and Archers of Loaf.
The Diner Result floats into a hazy dance epic while A Datum in the Life loosely re-imagines the Beatles' A Day in the Life in the age of augmented reality. The storm of Weather Warning looms menacingly over the sea before breaking into glistening rainbow skies atop the crashing surf. Album closer When I Come Away channels Dirty Inputs' live feel that burns a doom-tinged path before blossoming into its own slow-motion apocalypse.
The trance ends, open your eyes. Something is different.
More at
dirtyinputs.com
Video for “Heavy Maybe” directed by Nyles Miszczyk
youtu.be/onIjhiPJaqg
Video for “The Diner Result” by Dirty Inputs
youtu.be/HCrs7HXGmZI