Eyedress

One Liner:  Kinda jenky bedroom pop heavy on the new wave synths and basslines

Wikipedia Genre:  bedroom pop, post-punk, shoegaze, witch house (?!?), hip hop

Home: L.A.

Poster Position: 12
Both Weekends.
Saturday at 2:20.

AmEx Stage.

Thoughts:  Man, out of the frying pan and into the fire.  I just wrote how I wanted to move along from Valencia Grace to some other artist, but this is definitely worse.  His Spotify bio says he is a 5x platinum artist, but I don't see how that is possible.

Idris Ennolandy Vicuna is originally from the Philippines, but he moved to Phoenix when he was young.  Later, living in Orange County, CA, he joined a punk band Liberal Underground as their bassist.  He moved back to the Philippines when he was 15, and started releasing beats online by the time he was 20.  These tunes sound like someone raised on 80's new wave is making demos in their basement.  Wikipedia includes "witch house" as one of the genres for him - never heard of that.  It is apparently also called drag, and is described so: "a microgenre of electronic music that is musically characterized by high-pitched keyboard effects, heavily layered basslines and trap-style drum loops, while it aesthetically employs occult and gothic-inspired themes."  Mmmmkay.  This sounds to me more like old Cure and New Order if those guys never found a good producer.

Apparently, some of his tunes went viral on TikTok, during the pandemic.  His Spotify is very confusing, in that the first album included there is by something called Lofty305, but Wikipedia never mentions him using that moniker.  Instead, it is a 2013 EP called Supernatural that seems to be the first real release with this name.  2017's Manila Ice is the first real album, although none of those songs get much play.  2018's Sensitive G got a little more, but still most songs are under a million streams.  A 2019 single called "Jealous" was the big break, and is still his top streamer with 828.1 million spins on Spotify.

Yeah, okay, it isn't terrible by any means.  I can get with the vibe as I listen again, kind of a spoken word freakout with super lo-fi tunes.    That track was also included on the 2020 album Let's Skip to the Wedding, which included the other big TikTok hit, "Romantic Lover."  2021's Mulholland Drive has a nother big one, "Something About You" with 467.7 million streams.  Let's check that one out.

Smiths.  That one reminds me of the Smiths.  Just uninteresting to me.  Funny to me that the TikTok kiddie would blow up a track like this.  His next album was with something called YUNGMORPHEUS, 2021's Affable with Pointed Teeth, and it is very unpopular rap without any appreciable streaming action.  His 2022 album is with something called Natia, and it likewise went no where.  2022's Siblings with something named The Simps and zzzahara is same.  2022's THE HILLS HAVE EYES is yet another collaboration, this time with something called YL.  2022's FULL TIME LOVER has loads of different collabs.  Again, low streams though.  Finally, he released 2024's Vampire in Beverly Hills, a 34 song, hour and 19 minute pile of shoegazey new wave and shitty autotuned rap.  This one is called "Birkin."  I'm sorry.

I still don't know how he claims to be 5x platinum.  Maybe once you get a certain number of streams you get to act like you have a platinum record.  Either way, this ain't my thing.  Hope you enjoy!