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Lilac Shadows

Chapel Hill, NC Pop / Psychedelic / Dream

50% of sales go to the charity Keep a Child Alive.

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About

Members: Sam Logan, Derek Torres, Karen Blanco, Zack Oden, Nathan Price

Sounds Like: Deerhunter, My Bloody Valentine, Future Islands, Wye Oak, Grizzly Bear

Label: DiggUp Tapes

Bio: bright.
dark.
quiet.
loud.

for booking please email diggupthelabel[at]gmail[dot]com

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“In Lilac Shadows, Logan maintains his taste for tunefulness, but he piles elements on top of it. He adds hefty effects and distortion, transforming breezy, lightweight hooks into something brawnier.”

— Jordan Lawrence, Independent Weekly

“On their proper debut, the eight-song A Shallow Madness EP, Logan [...] infuses the jangling guitars and warm melodies with shadows of shoegaze and light-psych, and a slight electronic gloss that is purely early-aughts, even as it takes cues from a long line of shimmering pop.”

— Jordan Lawrence, Shuffle Magazine

"There’s some aspect of ethereal dream-pop in Lilac Shadows, but I’d be more inclined to use words like 'psychedelic' and 'spaced out' than 'airy' or 'gauzy' to describe them. [...] Their guitars are one of the airy, gauzy bits that makes me think of Slowdive. That bit alone makes it worth the price of admission [to Hopscotch Music Festival]."

— D. Lee, This Is That Song

“Lilac Shadows have crafted an airy, exquisite EP titled Shallow Madness. The 8 track EP alternates between instrumental tracks and vocal tracks. As if you get an intermission between each song that gears you up for what’s to come. A truly ingenious idea on their part. Standout tracks like ‘A Shallow Madness’ have you hypnotized, while ‘What Dreams’ sounds as if you’re hearing a shadowy story. Between the harmonious vocals and musing synths, you really don’t have a chance. Each song carries it’s own lustrous weight, stirring up those gleaming emotions we have buried somewhere inside”

— "Lovecat", Dingus Music

"Shallow Madness" requires intense brooding as it provokes, reaches deep and remains difficult to sum up. With each of its four songs stretching to at least five minutes, the soundscapes Shadows paints are lush and intricate, a combination of psychedelic-pop crescendos and gentle waves of synth. The soundtrack of twisted whimsical fairytale, this record loops and sharply changes course time again, washing over the airwaves with an innocuous, enchanting haze. The genre-bending song “A Shallow Madness” delicately launches the album, as Logan’s vocals are gently accompanied by soft and bouncing synth. But it’s when the growing sound transitions to “What Dreams” that the listener becomes fully engulfed. Full of eerie guitar and pensive pauses, it’s this song that invites us to crawl under the rippled blanket of sound the band has orchestrated. Once hooked, there isn’t any turning back.

— Elizabeth Byrum, Daily Tar Heel Diversions

“The initial demos color his catchy melodies in nervy distortion, lo-fi blasts that put late, strung-out nights in a tuneful light. The newly released Shallow Madness EP delivers on the demos’ promise, mixing’60s pop with 90s shoegaze and a penchant for 80s back beats. It’s an intoxicating mixture, at once hypnotic and unsettling.”

— Jordan Lawrence, Shuffle Magazine

“In Lilac Shadows [Sam Logan] and a crew of excellent backers refract the rays a bit, letting melodies anchor six-minute explorations rather than three-minute exercises. This music is immersive and addictive, baiting you back toward its heat-wave radiance with songs that stick”

— Grayson Currin, Independent Weekly

“Lilac Shadows—the stormy new project from Sam Logan—has been teasing with demos and samples for the better part of a year. Logan maintains his long-running knack for breathless hooks here, but just as Gross Ghost does, he willfully distances them, flanking them with tangents of drone and textures of noise.”

— Grayson Currin, Independent Weekly

"As the leader of the bigger, darker Lilac Shadows, Logan has fashioned songs that sail with super-smooth momentum, riding earworm hooks to irresistible catharsis. In his current outfit, Logan and a team of Triangle pop rock aces bolster his songs with tremendous walls of shadowy distortion. It's a mix of light and dark that could come off as trite, an attempt to grow the mystique of his music without actually having to change it much. But Logan's new shoegazing tones bolster his large-hearted songs, providing a crushing counterpoint to his romantic ideals."

— Jordan Lawrence, Independent Weekly

"From the first gritty slide down the guitar string I was in love. I was not astounded or blown away. Just simply in love. In love with the melody. In a deep seedy romance with dreamy, dark and intelligent lyrics. This seems like music that was made for driving down long stretches of highway during humid summer nights. The beauty of this sound is that it lulls you in, a pied piper of melody and rhythm, yet the energy of the band keeps you engaged. My last impression of Lilac Shadows, if Allison and John Bender from the Breakfast Club got married and had a child, this would be the poetry it carved into the desk during detention. Like I said, in love."

— Raleigh On The Rocks, Raleigh On The Rocks

"The new tunes retain Logan's classically catchy melodies, but repackage them with crushing riffs and a haze of blackened fuzz. Nodding to shoegaze but percolating with garage-pop tenacity, they're both cerebral and kinetic."

— Jordan Lawrence, Independent Weekly

"Lilac Shadows' paisley world shimmers in waves of distortion, evoking stoned late-nights swaying beneath the twinkle of city lights. While obviously informed by shoegaze, their psych-rock's not as creamy and overpowering, exploring a drier, more austere sound at times reminiscent of the Black Angels' arid shelter. Led by Sam Logan and Derek Torres, the band appears to be the sibling outgrowth of their band T0W3RS"

— Chris Parker, Independent Weekly

"Oddly ethereal psych-rock, [Lilac Shadows] sound like a late night collaboration between Kurt Vile and Angelo Badalamenti"

— Nightlight

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A Shallow Madness [EP] Released on Mar 31, 2012

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WUAG
Greensboro, NC, US | 7:00pm
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Greensboro, NC, US
Sun Jun 02 7:00pm
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Kings Barcade
Raleigh, NC, US | 9:00pm
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Raleigh, NC, US
Sat Jun 15 9:00pm
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Local 506
Chapel Hill, NC, US | 9:00pm
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Chapel Hill, NC, US
Fri Jun 28 9:00pm
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Jack Beagle's
Charlotte, NC, US | 6:00pm
Jack Beagle's
Charlotte, NC, US
Fri Jul 26 6:00pm
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RECESS FEST! Fri July 26 @ Jack Beagles Onward, soldiers Lilac Shadows Can't Kids Zach Mexico

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Lilac Shadows- "What Dreams" live @ King's Barcade

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Twundaofficial
Just stopping to show some love.... keep up the good work.
Fiona MacMahon
Great music here !! Playing my fav. 'Wishful Thinking'. All the best from Germany :)
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Q: When did you guys come together as a band? How did you come up with your name? I love it!

A: We formed in 2010. Our old guitar player was doing a report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and he told me about a poet who was describing the "lilac shadows on the hills of Palestine."

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