Dream Machine (The Lucid Edition) Des Rocs

• 1 Dream Machine 04:29
• 2 I Am The Lightning 03:58
• 3 White Gold 02:55
• 4 Nowhere Kid 03:14
• 5 Never Ending Moment 04:17
• 6 Bad Blood 04:14
• 7 Natural Born Thriller 03:12
• 8 In The Night 05:32
• 9 Up To You 03:38
• 10 Love and a Smoking Gun 04:03
• 11 Trauma Loop 02:58
• 12 The Way It Has to Be 03:49
• 13 In The Night 04:39
• 14 In The Night (Live From New York City) 05:22
• 15 Hold On (Live) 03:34
• Total Runtime 59:54

Info for Dream Machine (The Lucid Edition)

"The Lucid Edition" mit neuen und veröffentlichten Tracks.

Irgendwo in Queens komponiert ein Musikverrückter in einem unterirdischen Versteck Songs. Früher als Pausenraum für MTA-Tunnelarbeiter in den 1950er Jahren genutzt, strahlen die Mauern den Mut und das Erbe der Stadt aus und verleihen Des Rocs die authentische Seele von NYC.

Des Rocs ist Rock ’n Roll. Als New Yorker und Pizzabäcker in der vierten Generation hat seine Authentizität, gepaart mit seinem obsessiven Schaffensdrang, eine unbestreitbare Naturgewalt hervorgebracht. Seine Musik baut auf ihren tiefen und gefühlvollen Rock-Wurzeln auf und bringt Rock’n’Roll in die moderne Landschaft, angereichert mit der tiefen Ehrfurcht vor der Geschichte der Kunstform. Inspiriert von der Musik und Kultur sowohl der Vergangenheit als auch der Gegenwart bietet Des eine energiegeladene und dynamische Live-Performance, die das Blut, den Schweiß und die Tränen der Reise zur Neuerfindung des Rock’n’Roll zeigt.

Wenn sich das für einen dünnen Außenseiter aus New York ehrgeizig anhört, sollte man sich folgendes vor Augen führen: In den vier Jahren, seit Des Rocs zum ersten Mal Songs aus seinem New Yorker Schlafzimmer heraus veröffentlichte, hat er mehr als 225 Millionen Streams erreicht, die Top 30 bei Alternative Radio geknackt und sogar für die Rolling Stones eröffnet.

Als New Yorker der vierten Generation begann Des seine Karriere in verschiedenen Gruppen, die mit Größen wie Weezer, Fall Out Boy und Panic! At The Disco tourten, bevor er 2018 mit seiner Debüt-EP „Let The Vultures In“, die allein auf Spotify mehr als 50 Millionen Streams erreichte, auf Solopfaden ging. Es folgten zwei ähnlich gut aufgenommene EPs: „Martyr Parade“ aus dem Jahr 2019 und „This Is Our Life“ aus dem Jahr 2020. Ein Jahr später veröffentlichte Des Rocs sein erstes Album in voller Länge, „A Real Good Person In A Real Bad Place“ (2021). Das aktuelle Album des in New York City lebenden Rockkünstlers trägt den Titel „Dream Machine“. Die Songs erinnern an die glorreichen Zeiten von Metal und Grunge und bieten einen Schlafzimmer-Arena-Rock-Sound.

DES ROCS

Des Rocs
is a fearsome force of nature, a self-invented rock ‘n’ roll star for a new age and a generation seeking direction, a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm on a mission to search and destroy our social media-addled brains. The artist otherwise known as Danny Rocco is an original... sui generis, taking elements of the past and forging a fresh destiny for high-energy guitar, bass and drums electric music.

Dream Machine, his new album, and first for legendary rock indie Sumerian Records, is Des Rocs’ vehicle to take us along to that place... where life is heightened, and rock ‘n’ roll once more rules the zeitgeist. He’s not going to be a best-kept secret for long. His brand of self-titled “bedroom arena-rock” – which captures a blend of DIY intimacy and large-scale vision – is ready to infect the masses, to find the artistic tightrope within that populist thrust. Every performance is “on the edge of life and death” for Des Rocs, who works without a safety net in a “Never Ending Moment.” He was born to do this.

“Dream Machine is the beginning of the journey into the Des Cinematic Universe, my vessel of escape. I’ve spent my life dreaming a rock ‘n’ roll vision that is grand and entirely modern, standing on the shoulders of giants, but filtered through my own lens and life experiences,” says the man about his follow-up to his 2021 feature-length debut, A Real Good Person in a Real Bad Place.

Produced by both Alain Johannes [Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, PJ Harvey], Matt Wallace [Faith No More, Maroon 5] and Danny Rocco, Dream Machine offers a bold invitation to follow Des down his rock ‘n’ rollin’ “Alice in Wonderland” rabbit hole, a journey to the center of the singer/songwriter/guitar hero’s messianic mind, leading us out of our doldrums back to the glory days of classic rock, psychedelia, metal, punk, grunge, hardcore and into the future.

Once again accompanied by his fellow power trio members, bassist Eric Mendelsohn and drummer Will Tully, Dream Machine evokes the thunder and lightning of metal gods past (“Bad Blood”), the wide-screen whisper-to-a-scream mythmaking of the cinematic string-orchestrated set piece, “In the Night” and the Flamenco-flavored acoustic guitar solo which intros the first single, “Never Ending Moment,” in which Des anticipates the ending of a relationship with a kind of reverse nostalgia.

Boasting the hip swivel of vintage Elvis Presley and the playful sneer of Johnny Thunders, this proud New Yorker found his true calling after dark on the streets of New York City’s downtown club scene and around the country, playing with the same bug-eyed intensity to the back row, whether in front of 90 people or 90,000, opening for the Rolling Stones at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field (which he did in 2019 right before Covid). Des Rocs has also opened for Muse in arenas across Europe.

“Making music for us is existential,” says Des, a proud heir of the New York City rock tradition which spans the Velvet Underground, Kiss, the Ramones, Sonic Youth and the Strokes. “We spend our whole life just making it possible to play music without a real day job. We’re just so happy to be on-stage.”

You can hear that joy of primal rock ‘n’ all over Dream Machine. The title track opens with a bone-weary driver, “It’s 2:10 in the morning/I’m on the BQE,” referring to New York’s Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. It’s a fever dream that boasts a singalong chorus which takes you on its own psychedelic trip that recalls the doomsaying of Jim Morrison. “Come on take a joy ride/In my dream machine.”

“Natural Born Thriller” and “I Am the Lightning,” both dealing with Des’ shaman-like passion to entertain and perform as well as a personal self-empowering pep talk, boast ominous bass lines and thunderous metallic guitar riffs that distinguish a vision that is equal parts messianic, dystopian and apocalyptic.

“This music is the antithesis of that too-cool-for-school, navel-gazing indie-rock scene,” insists Des. “I grew up worshiping that big sound and theatricality, watching Queen at Wembley as a little kid in my underwear.”

“I firmly believe your chances of success are the same whether you try to imitate something else, and join the herd, or do something unique,” he says. “So, you might as well be true to yourself and your vision.

“We spend our whole life struggling to be able to make music itself. We are just so grateful to be on-stage.”

Des Rocs reigns as a disciple of rock n’ roll, wielding his musical prowess to conjure a spellbinding bridge between past and present. Dream Machine is the thrilling vessel for his journey, the finely-tuned engine of transformation he’s prepared to unleash on the world. This electrifying force of rock n’ roll is his life, his salvation… and he wants to make it yours as well.

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