HEALAMONSTER & TARSIER

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Deastro is the new kid on the electro-pop block. Pigeonholed as having a sound akin to indie-mainstreamers Death Cab For Cutie and hushed electronic darlings M83, in truth Randolph Chabot is a 22-year-old synth master who has created his own separate musical world — a world where crushing, noisy dance parties live amongst simpler arrangements and an impending, desperate sense of isolation.

Chabot has been recording since the age of 12 — and as someone used to the independence of his music — he self-released three albums and was a regular performer in many of Detroit’s DIY venues before eMusic signed him to their Selects label to release Keeper’s, a sort of “Best Of” compilation of his work thus far. Quickly becoming one of the site’s fastest-selling artists, Ghostly International soon picked up Chabot and re-released the album. Keeper’s is complicated. Complicated like the three-eyed cat-wolf thing adorning the intergalactic album cover. And intergalactic is a good word to describe the album as well, with its soaring electronic instruments and wide open musical spaces that sometimes fuzz over lyrics on the vocal tracks. – Venus Zine

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