The Sometimes Island is a synth pop band based in Los Angeles, known for its exhilarating, unforgettable live shows. Today, we’re exclusively premiering their new single, “Phantom Limb”. Read our interview with the band and listen to the new song below!
Every day, I wake up in one of my recording studios. It’s sort of a necessity, because my bed is there and because it’s my bedroom. This probably sounds familiar to most indie music producers. There’s a whole world of sound and music that can be packed into a laptop and taken just about anywhere, thanks to the rise of and currently incredible quality of Virtual Studio Technology - VST’s. I use these to write and record music all the time, but I frequently find the end product to be lacking… something. The absence of “real” instruments fairly often translates to flat, bland sounding music. I can’t prove this — but I feel any listener, on a subconscious level, can detect fake sounds. Lend me your ear and let me show you how I overcome this, injecting realism and life back into the music and washing away the artificiality.
