Earlier this year, Detroit native Deastro released Moondagger, his official debut for Ghostly International. Under the pseudonym Deastro, Randolph Chabot has put out a record armed with a schizophric sound that is one part New Order, one part Postal Sevice, two parts heart, and six parts navel-gazing.
Chabot has been recording and releasing music solo since he was a teenager, but for the first time ever, Deastro's brand of dramatic bedroom synth-pop includes other living, breathing musicians. Despite the addition of non-computer band mates, every bleep, bloop, and electronic arpeggio that defined Deastro’s sound years’ prior still remains.
While Chabot is a proficient programmer, what makes Deastro’s work (and this album) so great is its childlike nature. Steeped in faith, fantasy, and folly, Deastro’s songs and subject matter help even out the heavy-handed audio of the notes played on his keyboard.
Not at all grounded to the earth, Deastro’s starry electronics are best suited for a summer spent on a space station.
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From 2009’s Moondagger…
Biophelia - Deastro
Parallelogram – Deastro
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