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<\/a>Often described simply as a “one-woman psych rock band,”\u00a0Idgy Dean<\/a>\u00a0is a Brooklyn based solo artist mastering in weaving together intricate layers of sound to create intensely rhythmic and stupefyingly catchy songs, built live from the ground up. Starting with a drum beat or guitar riff set on loop and adding her own backing vocals and harmonies, Lindsay Sanwald expertly pulls together all the elements you’d find in a full band performance all-the-while dancing around barefoot on stage, creating an energy that’s palpable throughout the room.<\/p>\nAn Idgy Dean performance is a captivating experience and the recorded music is nothing to scoff at either. Her first album,\u00a0OK Cadavers!<\/i>, was released in 2009 and she’s continued to tease with a handful of EP and single releases since, including 2011’s wonderful\u00a0Heart & Lung<\/a><\/i>. Now with the promise of a new full-length,\u00a0Ominous Harminus<\/i>, we’ve got something to look forward to in 2015.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The concept for the album came from a tragic subway experience, one that inspired an idea of “Apocalypse Optimism—the Renaissance after the Black Death, the green after the volcano, Catastrophe, Mother of Cosmos.” Sanwald explained, “I got giddy with etymology and intellectualizing the work, but the only real way to channel and communicate it\u2019s primordial guts was to drum, chant, yawp, dance—violently, ecstatically—to sound it out, so to speak.”<\/p>\n