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SPIRIT IN THE ROOM is pleased to unveil a visualizer for the track âI Used To Be A Machine.â The brain bending clip comes in celebration of the bandâs long-awaited new EP, Flamingo, out TODAY via Housecore Records.
If you ever wondered what goes on in the head of a film noir hitman, horror novel asylum inmate, or a golden age silver screen villain, it might sound something like SPIRIT IN THE ROOM. The vision of Louisiana-born and Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Dennis R. Sanders unfurls through cigarette smoke, cheap booze, and distortion like an anachronistic fever dream soundtracked by a collision of gothic vocal hues, immersive alternative architecture, and jarring metallic catharsis. Itâs scary at times.
Itâs sad at other times. However, itâs always unpredictableâespecially on SPIRIT IN THE ROOMâs 2022 debut EP for Housecore Records, Flamingo. âFlamingo is a character,â notes Sanders. âIt could be anybody who lives a chaotic-slash-exotic lifestyle. There has been a bird presence in my family for the longest time. Youâve seen flamingos; theyâre beautiful and strange. Flamingo could be a stripper or an errand boy for some really scandalous entity. To me, Flamingo is just very after hours.â
Lose yourself in SPIRIT IN THE ROOMâs âI Used To Be A Machineâ video, directed by Davud Brenner/Gridfailure, at THIS LOCATION.
View SPIRIT IN THE ROOMâs previously released mini-movie at THIS LOCATION.
Flamingo is available on CD, LP, and digitally. Find physical orders at THIS LOCATION and digital orders at THIS LOCATION.
SPIRIT IN THE ROOM remains comfortable in the dark. Audiences initially met Sanders as part of Black Light Burns. However, he introduced SPIRIT IN THE ROOM during 2010 before revealing a series of projects â The Holy Phobia, Pt. 1 EP (2014), Demon (2015), and Spirit In The Room, Vol. 1 EP (2019) âin between various singles and countless shows. Along the way, the band also performed on bills with the likes of Deftones, â â â (Crosses), Scour, and more. Receiving critical acclaim, Kerrang! applauded, âSPIRIT IN THE ROOM are a special kind of band,â and went as far as to christen Sanders, âa dark poet for dark time.â Cvlt Nation confessed, âIâve been hooked on the dark passion of their at times contradictory, always hard to define sound. And you should be too.â
Throughout the Pandemic, Sanders went through a heightened level of hell on earth (even for 2020). He left one chaotic environment to âlive in a room in a big house in the true Los Angeles neighborhood of El Serenoâ as part of a fraught situation âthat got increasingly violent.â
When all was said and done, he found himself sleeping in his truck, at the studio, and at a girlfriendâs place as he wrote and recorded Flamingo in the eye of this storm, singing and playing guitar, bass, synths, and piano.
âIâve realized I never really had a home,â he observes. âThere are five songs Iâve written about that. Then there are some paranoia vibes until it explodes because youâre so emotional you canât control your reaction. The end of the EP resembles becoming the new person you are, which is not necessarily a good thing.â
ââ¦we experience a whole range of feelings from paranoia to obsession that make Flamingo what it is; a musically progressive record with Sanders more than ready to take risks along the way⦠one of the strongest EP releases of this year to date, with SPIRIT IN THE ROOM really making a statement and reinforcing a true sense of identity and realism in the process.â â Distorted Sound
ââ¦a blistering heavy garage-come-industrial metal banger.â â Maximum Volume Music
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