Dammien Alexander - Love + Infinity (2017)

Dammien Alexander says it was a near-death experience in Costa Rica that changed everything. What started off as a great day bodyboarding some 2-plus meter sets ended with being swept out at high tide, exhausted and 500 meters out on a boogie board. “It ended with me taking desperate air on shore after coming face to face with the power of the raging ocean and my ability to push back,” he said. “I had to want to live. Not just prevent me from dying. I had to save myself.” After that, the multi-instrumentalist and singer said, “Music just sounded different than before. It opened up doors in my heart and mind.”

He’d burnt out on music years before, but struggling to survive led him back to his songs, and to creating a new style of music. Blending R&B, funk, and soul with rock energy, the result was the album Love + Infinity. “I just felt lighter as a person so the music started to resonate that way,” Alexander. The set, out on March 24 via Underground Sun, is made up of songs that are slightly atonal, but rhythmic, more upbeat, and brighter. “I wanted people to enjoy themselves when they listen to this record. That’s really a big part of it. I do know right now that people need a little bit of relief.”

TRACKLIST

01. Elevate (Underground Sol Remix)
02. Love With Our Souls
03. You Make Me Wanna
04. Be Your Man
05. Mind Body and Soul
06. Tidal Wave
07. Click Clack Pitch Black
08. Peace of Me
09. Elevate
10. Savages
11. Chant (Don't Give Up)