Ejecta Premieres New Video, Announces Dates

Ejecta Premieres New Video for their single "Eleanor Lye" off their album Dominae, out now on driftless Announces Tour Dates starting April 5 in Norman, Ok

Brooklyn duo Ejecta is back with a new video for “Eleanor Lye” off their debut album Dominae. Released last year on Driftless Recordings.

The video premiered this week, calling the track “twinkling” and “heartbreaking,” going on to say “one of the best debuts of last years gets a rather intense and beautiful video, in which we witness the stark, emotional (re)birth of our fearless heroine.”

New York City’s Ejecta is a duo, one of those classic stories of two musicians in different bands—Leanne Macomber, of Neon Indian; and Joel Ford, of Tigercity— meeting on tour and becoming “fast friends”. It was 2009. After sharing their personal work with each other over the ensuing years, it was decided that they could possibly work outside of their previously defined obligations.

Macomber had mostly worked with ill-tempered four-track machines in bedrooms nationwide, as her Fight Bite project had been predominantly a tiny operation she kept alive after a move from Texas to New York. By 2010 Ford knew his way around an actual studio. His résumé included producing such forward thinking and critically acclaimed acts as Autre Ne Veut, Oneohtrix Point Never, and the split namesake, Ford & Lopatin.

In the summer of 2012, Ford sifted through a stack of Macomber’s prickly demos, and reworked a track called “Silver” to the singer’s enthusiastic approval. He also provided her with a completely new piece of music, now known as “It’s Only Love.” Once the singer added her vocals and acrobatic melodies, Ejecta was real.

Over the next year, the two worked on nearly a dozen songs, with Macomber as the fundamental songwriter, and Ford behind the boards. A single was released, “Jeremiah (The Denier),” on Driftless Recordings, a completely independent label founded by Ford and collaborator Patrick McDermott.

The aforementioned collection of songs now has a name as a full-length LP, Dominae. Macomber’s previously frayed-edged love songs were now given the grandiosity of the emotions implied therein. What Leanne describes as Joel’s “endless tinkering” has helped to embellish the themes she is forever exploring in her music: “Unrequited love, failed attempts at adulthood,” and perhaps most importantly, “the death of her closest friend.”

Macomber describes Ejecta as a character, one that conceptually represents her various inner-struggles, and yet also as a way to “deflect” them. This alternate identity acts a conduit for Macomber’s countless longings, and as such is always depicted completely nude. Leanne explains a desire for Ejecta to be “universal” and “timeless,” and this heartbreaking pop record is certainly capable of being both of those things. But she also refers to the character as both an “everywoman” and even an “everyman.”

Dominae, was released November 5th, 2013, on Driftless Recordings in the United States. The also brand new, London-based, Happy Death will handle the record over the rest of the globe. Happy Death was founded by Peter Darlington and Ed Horrox (4AD). Expect more genre traversing music from both labels.

Dominae Tracklisting /

01. Mistress
02. It’s Only Love
03. Beast
04. Inside
05. Afraid of the Dark
06. Jeremiah
07. Silver
08. Eleanor Lye
09. Small Town Girl
10. Tempest

Upcoming Tour Dates /

04.05.14 – University of Oklahoma – Norman, OK *
04.06.14 – Warehouse Live – Houston, TX *
04.07.14 – White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX *
04.09.14 – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ *

* w/ Sleigh Bells

http://driftlessrecordings.com/

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