After spending time in New York City, the deserts of New Mexico, a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, and a tour bus constantly surrounded by teenage girls, Evan Voytas is presently in Los Angeles. With influences ranging from underground hip hop to classic sunshine pop, Voytas dresses like your grandpa and sounds like the future.
"Getting Higher" is a sure-shot dance floor jammer, and if there were still such things as roller rinks, this song would be pumping out of their speakers while girls with Farrah Fawcett hair and knee high socks do circle laps.
In Flight at Night
The drums are packaged and the synths soar back-and-forth doing the musical version of a bicycle figure-eight.
But, by the time the digitized chimes buzz your tower, this cold concoction of zeros and ones doesn't feel freezing at all. Even for all of its computerized austerity and careful planning, "Getting Higher" still feels like it might bounce off the ground. It is both likeable and self-aware. It has a heartbeat. This is rare. You can do it.
32ft/second
"Getting Higher" is where it's at. It's an instantly love-able dancey track, complete with a 70's funk bass groove, and straight-up disco beat, and uplifting sunny guitars and synths bathed in a healthy does of reverb.
Steve Cross Loves Science and Music
The sonically inventive Evan Voytas tentatively dips his toe into the unforgiving metropolis of synth-pop on his latest EP which has been previewd on the vowel-phobic/music-philic RCRD LBL for your pleasure. It's pretty difficult to stop being swept out to the saccharine sea by the quirky technicolour tide of "Getting Higher." Forget glossy production, the retro summer has got its groove on.
Transparent Blog
24 yrs old and swirling electronics like a young James Murphy. Evan Voytas has mastered the blend of rock and electro and added lazy harmonies for good luck. He released his debut ep this past week, and has big plans for 2008. What to Wear During an Orange Alert
This EP was a wonderful display of some great indie pop moments. Evan has a gentle vocal that just feels right at home with every listen. He is certainly a songwriter to keep an eye on.
Comfort Comes
If you're not listening to Evan Voytas, you're seriously missing out... and I'm not just saying that. You're missing out on an art form here.
Circles of Concrete
...sometimes-moody, sometimes-electronic, all-the-time-awesome pop songs.
Buzzgrinder
Voytas' hazy, overdriven pop comes across like DayQuil.
Buzznet
Voytas employs the same playfulness and harmonic tendencies shared by other bands in the indie-pop genre, but he does so with a sense of composition rarely seen on a debut record.
Pasta Primavera
a debut EP that has the influences of his classic rock upbringing spliced with his modern surroundings and talents.
Stereo Subversion
Don’t sleep on him any longer, if this kid continues to write songs as good as “I Live This Life Here For You”, he could become our American version of M83.
In Flight at Night
Read the interview with What to Wear during an Orange Alert.
hey evan! it was great seeing you yesterday! it was a great, and hectic, show XD lol. hope it all ended well!! i had lots of fun :) loved meeting everyone also. take care
"There are emergent, bizarre mental stories, distorted feelings, quite strange disturbances in the life of the will, for example, remarkable nervous activities of which science can only posit the existence."
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