New Ben + Vesper EP Releases tomorrow!
Ladies and Gents,
May I present to you the new, the dream-fulfilling, the ecstasy inducing…
LuvInIdleness by Ben + Vesper, produced by Sufjan Stevens.
It all came about this past summer as a mixture of preparing for a Midsummer Night’s Dream festival, playing a residency at Sycamore in Brooklyn, and collaborating with our friend Sufjan Stevens over peanut butter cookies. No one had any idea how it would turn out, but we were all looking to make some music without consequences.
Ben and I had recorded a full-length album earlier that year (stay tuned), and wanted to just lay back and say a happy goodbye to the dog days of summer. So after a show one night, we and Sufjan talked about getting together to simply play music and see what would happen. Sufjan had played on our previous releases, but we wanted more of his input and less hoo-ha about getting a million players together. Ben wrote all the songs in a week. We set aside a week to record, and Ben and I mostly took turns going to the office, laying down simple guitars and vocals. Then we’d come home, and around midnight, a new and crazy mix would show up in our email and we’d freak out. The result was the synthy, feel-good mishmash we fondly call “LuvInIdleness”.
We did a limited homemade run for our residency, but then our label picked it up and we got to use neon and metallic Pantone® colors. And that was a very happy thing.
Enjoy!
