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Ash Relics is a new vision blending old sounds. Electric blues and folk with a psychedelic edge. Funky retro electro beats. Songs from the gut.
Chris Seal created Ash Relics, an anagram of his name, in 2018 as an outlet for his beat-making inclinations and electric blues guitar playing. The idea was that early rap beats with a heavy electronic element, utilizing 80s drum machines and synths, might be compatible with his electric blues rock guitar style. Ideas always spinning off into other ideas, he then also conceived of turning similar drum machine and synth bass sounds into more straight-rhythm, robotic techno beats and singing indie-folk songs accompanied by Fender Telecaster over them. Ash Relics sounds like early Black Keys if Too Short replaced Patrick Carney's drums with his vintage 808 drum machine, and like early Iron & Wine if Sam Beam played electric and had Kraftwerk's techno as his rhythm section. And blistering Hendrix-style psychedelic guitar solos thrown in here and there.
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