Daniel Davies - Spies (Official Visualizer)

“Spies“ from composer and guitarist Daniel Davies’s new EP Spies via Sacred Bones Records. Purchase ’Spies’ here: Across its five stirringly atmospheric tracks, the frequent John Carpenter collaborator reflects on the familiar sensation of feeling as though one’s every action is being watched and scrutinized by unseen eyes, a prescient theme in the social media age. Davies composed the five tracks in his Los Angeles studio in the fall and winter of 2020, while in the depths of pandemic lockdown. Working in isolation his gaze turned inward, resulting in a batch of material that feels at once intense and intimate, while also his most sonically expansive solo material yet. His trademark guitar and synthesizer lines are bolstered by double bass, cello, viola, and violin, adding a new depth to the music. As he did for his 2020 full-length Signals, Davies teamed up with acclaimed visual artist Jesse Draxler (Daughters, Poppy) for the artwork. The stark, black-and-white piece