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Canty

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city: London
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Experimental, Electronic, Indie Pop, Dream Pop

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Dim Binge on January 31, 2025
via Full Time Hobby

on hashbrandnew.com since July 28, 2023

credits: Lara Laeverenz

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Mirrorball

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out on October 29, 2024

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East London multi-disciplinarian Canty announces their new mixtape Dim Binge. The 10-track mixtape will be released January 31st, 2025, on Full Time Hobby.

Lead single “Mirrorball” is a striking entrance point – a work of revelation that faces up to a huge personal challenge. “About a year ago my legs went numb,” Canty recalls. “Then I ended up going to hospital for a little while… and I was diagnosed with MS.” The song’s lyrics even reference this diagnosis, with the words “cables in my spine” becoming a loose echo of a doctor’s prognosis. The song goes beyond that, though - laced with information and detail, it’s a reference to the overwhelming internal landscape verging on euphoria, whether that’s anxiety, sensory overload, or the legacy of trauma.

Canty blends the old with the new, the sacred with the profane, the tender with the explicit, his output both as a songwriter and visual artist occupies its own lane. Moving and distinctive, their incoming mixtape Dim Binge is their truest testimony yet, a work of scorched autobiography that feels utterly distinctive.

The songs on Dim Binge have deep roots. The record reaches back to Canty’s earliest memories, before tackling their most recent dilemmas. A project prompted by what they term as “a few before-and-after moments” it looks beyond these crises to supply something universal. “Songwriting is something that just makes sense to me,” Canty says. “I love how melodies and words intersect. It’s sacred to me.”

Working from a mate’s flat Canty started “spewing ideas out” in an epic fit of creativity, matching musical exhalation to hours spent carving, scratching, and scribbling portraits on old pieces of cardboard. Canty began patching these together, a collage-like approach creating something multi-faceted, complex, but wholly striking. As Canty puts it, the sessions were “a binge cocktail of self-care, psilocybin and self-recording.”

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