(Denver, CO) May 13, 2022 – The psychedelic and alternative rock duo, The Impliers, bring an art/pop/noir surrealism to contemporary music. Songs veer off into weird journeys, and their productions are thoughtfully layered, demanding multiple listens to take in the full majesty of their carefully composed soundscapes. They take advantage of everything at their disposal, like oddly tuning guitars, harmonizing, ambient soundscapes, layering and texturing synthetic sounds, and atonal sounds.
The multi-instrumentalist masterminds behind the impliers, Dan Hartman and Charles Ingram, do everything from writing to producing. While initially cut from the same cloth, Dan and Charles have crafted their own individual sounds. Dan brings melodic, impressionistic, and polished musical arrangements, driving rhythms, thoughtful lyrics, and catchy choruses. Charles contributes brooding, ethereal, ambient, raw instrumental elements and haunting, mysterious words. Together, each member brings a complementary skill set and perspective.
They released their newest single, “Lightning.” It has a Tame Impala meets David Bowie sound to it, with a little pop and a lot of synthetic elements. Their voices are processed in the songs opening and gradually increases as the song progresses. There is no underlying melody or constant beat. As the song moves forward it gets more chaotic and more atonal. There is no grounding element to the song other than the lyrics.
Dan shares “Early on in the song there’s a part Charles sings ‘It doesn’t happen, as quick as we’d like it,’ where the melody comes kind of in an unexpected hopeful way from some of the darker notes happening just before, but then the chorus tries to take that same melody into a more intense direction, and we just kind of ended out in a place where the song continuously keeps digging in new directions and even when an earlier part reprises, we try to alter the feeling or mood of it.”
While “Lightning” constantly shape-shifts in mood and genre, it has its roots in a part of a song Charles made in 2005. They experiment with tempo, instrumentation, and melody with “Lightning.”