Expensive Looks

Expensive Looks

Dark Matters

Group Tightener

***ALEC FIELD grew up in New York on a steady diet of Chicago house, disco, old Motown stuff and a smattering of his parents’ psych records, as well as “trashy ’90s dance.” Dark Matters is his debut LP as EXPENSIVE LOOKS. It flows continuously across nine tracks, touching on elements of all the music he grew up on: hypnotic house, textured minimalism, and the gorgeous moment of musical epiphany that happens when a beat drops out and all that’s left is the aural equivalent of taking a deep breath and staring at the stars. It’s a dance record with the sort of scrappy, open heart that can only come from someone like Feld. Expensive Looks is all encompassing, it draws from all genres without border, pulling everything into one warped but pointed mass.

Expensive Looks

Vanishers

Group Tightener

***Group Tightener is proud to present the first ever physical release from EXPENSIVE LOOKS. The introductory 7-inch features two songs, with the B-side exclusive to this release. "Vanishers" is a hazy, slow-build of electronic loops and ALEC FIELD’s passionate croon, diping through the echoey peaks and valleys of a teen searcher's bedroom wail. "Simon" gets a bit more sinister with off-kilter samples. The record is just a taste of the textured dance-oriented full-length that will see release on Group Tightener this summer. Limited to 500.