Dull Reality
EP: Dull Reality’s EP ‘Daffodil’ is a thrillingly and imaginative sonic adventure.
Ben Shields records under the name Dull Reality and, although it’s an easy observation to make, his music is anything but. Shields works almost purely in the realms of electronic sounds – shape shifting electronica that is complex and multi-layered and given impetus and wings by his extraordinary vocal range and vivid imagination. Opening track …
Track: Melbourne’s Dull Reality’s imagination sparkles with the atmospheric single ‘Push Myself Away’.
Dull Reality – the work of Melbourne musician Ben Shields – follows up his single ‘Daffodil (reviewed by me here) with the new track ‘Push Myself Away’ – another sparkling, textural, multi-layered track. With a motorik syncopated beat and a synth wash, a hypnotic jingling in the far distance, this is a transfixing delight – …
Track: Melbourne electronic artist Dull Reality sparks ups the voltage with ‘Daffodil’, the title track to the newly announced debut EP.
With earphones on, ‘Daffodil’ from Melburnian Dull Reality – the solo work of Ben Shields – positively bubbles and snaps from one side of your head to the other – syncopated, arpeggiated popping sonics that massage, confuse and delight the ears. Over the top, Shields’s voice glides, swoops and circulates with melody: a contrapuntal force …