All of a sudden, I’m feeling a bit of a buzz around David Michael Stith or DM Stith as he is more commonly known. The Sunday Times and The Observer featured him over the last two weekends. Shane and Jim mentioned him too.
He sounds like Daniel Rossen and more specifically, Rossen’s Dapartment of Eagles output albeit with the voices of ghosts and spectres shrouded in dusk on a lonely troubadour’s walk betwixt desolate nearby villages. Dare I say it? – This year’s Bon Iver? Not right now. Here are some songs from his site.
DM Stith – Just Once (from Curtain Speech EP)
Rafter – Merchadise (DM $tith remix)
He is signed to Asthmatic Kitty and you can listen to new album Heavy Ghost on the new Muxtape.
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If Shane is feeling incredibly smug about just how far ahead of the pack he was on this guy it’d be entirely justified.
Shane is definitely not the smug type.
Thanks lads. I might make an exception this time, and smug it up just a bit.
Don’t Smug up the place now!
Shane was first up best dressed on this one without a shadow of a doubt
The tunes on the Torture Garden session are sweet as a nut
woo I like i like.
You have to like the way that Just Once kicks it up there about halfway through.
Nice one. Thanks.