Baths Announces New EP, Releases Its Title Track

LA-based Electronic virtuoso Baths has had an eventful past few years, with each album released gaining the producer more and more acclaim. With last year’s release Obsidian, Baths appeared to be nearing new artistic heights, and now the 25-year-old has announced his new EP Ocean Death.

This new project is billed as a “companion piece” to Obsidian, and the press releases calls the forthcoming EP “the Dia De Los Muertos to to Obsidian’s Halloween.” It’s also stated that Ocean Death‘s “subject matter remains dark-tinted pop,” and that “the pulse is almost minimal techno, but it’s suffused with maximalist emotion.” Judging by the the title track Baths has released that sounds about right. Baths’ new track and new sound is based less on simply instrumental production and more on canorous, sweeping soundscapes meant to evoke the gloomier side of emotions. Further breaking down the new EP and song, the official press release states the following:

“A small part of Ocean Death was recorded in a hotel room in Spain, but it was mostly done at a friend’s home in LA, the place where Obsidian was completed. Both records traverse similar terrain: morbid lyricism, direct vocal melodies, a felicity in subsuming electronic experiments into pop songs. It’s about death, apathy, and loneliness. It sounds like a final love letter to a chapter of life that has already ended — and maybe it has. Songs are currently being theorized for a third full-length, and the direction is vastly different.”

You can stream the new song “Ocean Death” below.