Feeling Today is Spencer Stephenson's debut release under the Botany moniker.
The culmination of years of assembling music, this EP, and his forthcoming
full-length, flow with a transcendental radiance. Under the gauzy patina of
decades-old samples, this Texan sound-sculptor masterfully merges the past and
the present, the earthly and the infinite.
Spencer recalls recording a casio keyboard onto cassette-tape at the age of 4, and
becoming hooked on the simple idea that he could capture sounds and share them
with those around him. Now 22, he's still at it, playing instruments and stitching
sounds together in his home atop a hill, surrounded by trees, fringed by the wide
Texas horizon.
He explores the cosmic nexus of shimmering psychedelia, blissed-out pop, and
instrumental hip-hop, as he turns recycled sounds into something thoroughly
modern. For Spencer there's a therapeutic value in reconfiguring the ''noise'' of an
information-dense consumer culture into something nourishing and honest. He
collects artifacts...scavenged bits of ephemera...all of the organic and inorganic
matter that passes through our hands and heads everyday and he uses them to
build something deeply personal. Ultimately, he reminds us that the natural world
we are a part of is one of boundless wonder and color.''
INFORMATION
- Botany's Feeling today EP has already received
praise from Fader, Urb, Pitchfork, Stereogum,
Gorilla vs. Bear, and more
- The vinyl version includes mp3 download postcard
and a vinyl-only bonus track.
- Botany's forthcoming full-length features vocals by
J. Tillman of Fleet Foxes.
- Botany has performed at SXSW and CMJ and has
shared bills with Coco Rosie, Born Ruffians, Baths,
Prince Rama, and more.
Feeling Today
Minnow Theme
Waterparker
Glass House
Bennefactress
Agave