TEDDY PANOPOULOS: Dead Waves frontman to release first solo EP, "Lost in Love"
Teddy Panopoulos, one-half of acclaimed New York City band Dead Waves, announces the September 25th release of his first solo effort, the Lost in Love EP.
Burning Ambulance described that most recent album as "bridging the gap between experimental rock and some sort of unknown, barbarous folk music," likening it to Sonic Youth, Neil Young, and Wolves in the Throne Room, while CVLT Nation called it "fragile, and full of cosmic pain." Noisey proclaimed: “Dead Waves will make you stare at the sun and see the end of existence.”
A list of Panopoulos' favorite artists reveals an array of outsiders and true originals, across genres – Roy Orbison, Julee Cruise, Prince, Abner Jay, and Arthur Russell, to name a few – but Lost in Love was inspired by experience, not by other people's music. Panopoulos describes the genesis: "I was going through a really sad time with personal heartbreaks and life changes, and needed something to channel these feelings. And from all the downtime of being inside from the pandemic I finally got to bring this project to fruition. When there was no one or nothing else to blame, I had to finally question myself. So basically it’s a mission to really look at myself and heal from the pain and try to forgive myself and embrace love."
Tracklist:
1) If You Ever Come Down
2) Lost in Love
3) What Happens When There’s No One Left to Blame
4) At Least My Ghosts Don’t Leave
Photo by Jeremy Balderson
Cover art by Ana Belen Ruiz
Stream the title track from Lost in Love, here:
Pre-order the EP, here:
Under the Dead Waves banner, Panopoulos and his brother Nick have released three full-lengths and three EPs, all within half a decade. Over the course of those recordings, in that short span of time, a glorious progression has been documented. The duo began with a heavy garage rock sound and graduated to ghostly, bare-bones, psych-folk, brimming with anguish and wonder. Dead Waves' transformation was expressed in full on its latest work, 2018's God of the Wild, which incorporated traditional Greek instruments (a nod to the brothers' heritage) into the mix of voice, guitars, and analog synths.
Burning Ambulance described that most recent album as "bridging the gap between experimental rock and some sort of unknown, barbarous folk music," likening it to Sonic Youth, Neil Young, and Wolves in the Throne Room, while CVLT Nation called it "fragile, and full of cosmic pain." Noisey proclaimed: “Dead Waves will make you stare at the sun and see the end of existence.”
Where God of the Wild left off, Teddy Panopoulos now carries on. Panopoulos' first solo work, Lost in Love, was produced by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, P.J. Harvey) and mastered by Kim Rosen (Bonnie Raitt, Billy Bragg). Even more minimal, even more raw than what came before, Lost in Love removes layers and exposes this tortured soul that much more clearly.
Over skeletal synth parts, Panopoulos' voice is as real as it gets – from intimate mumblings to primal screams, he is stripped naked. Truly haunting, truly unsettling, truly beautiful, Lost in Love might be the purest account of the human condition we will hear this year.
A list of Panopoulos' favorite artists reveals an array of outsiders and true originals, across genres – Roy Orbison, Julee Cruise, Prince, Abner Jay, and Arthur Russell, to name a few – but Lost in Love was inspired by experience, not by other people's music. Panopoulos describes the genesis: "I was going through a really sad time with personal heartbreaks and life changes, and needed something to channel these feelings. And from all the downtime of being inside from the pandemic I finally got to bring this project to fruition. When there was no one or nothing else to blame, I had to finally question myself. So basically it’s a mission to really look at myself and heal from the pain and try to forgive myself and embrace love."
Lost in Love will be released on Entheon Records, the label founded in 2018 by the Panopoulos brothers.
Tracklist:
1) If You Ever Come Down
2) Lost in Love
3) What Happens When There’s No One Left to Blame
4) At Least My Ghosts Don’t Leave
Photo by Jeremy Balderson
Cover art by Ana Belen Ruiz
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