Recommended tracks: (1) Thank You, (3) Back In Time, (7) The End

St. Paul’s indie-pop duo Daymoths is comprised of Emily Dantuma (vocals/keyboards) and Ollie Dodge (drums/vocals). The two began making music together in the early ’00s in the band Vox Vermillion, which was signed to Atmosphere’s Women Records. Subsequent projects found the married couple stretching out into experimental, noise rock, and even classical territory (Dantuma is also a classically-trained cellist and performs Bach Suites and original compositions as String Bikini) before focusing their collective energies into the measured and spacious sounds of Daymoths. The band has just released their first full-length album, Back In Time. This is a winter album, conceived and written during a frigid month in Iowa, recorded at Tiger Tiger Studios by Dove Foster-Dewy, mixed at Old Blackberry Way by Neil Weir, and mastered at Magneto Mastering by Dave Gardner. Back In Time recently landed a spot on the City Pages Best Minnesota Albums of 2011 runner-up list and is receiving regular airplay on over a dozen CMJ-reporting stations. Daymoths is on tour this winter promoting the album.

RIYL: Portishead, St. Vincent, Blonde Redhead, Kate Bush

“Fans of distinctive female vocalists will find much to love… Dantuma uses her (vocals) to great expressive effect, exploring warbles and whispers equally and apparently unafraid to experiment with tones.” Arielle Castillo (BrowardPalmBeach.com)

“Spacey, spooky and stripped-down…the songs bring to mind the freakish contents of Victorian curiosity cabinets and would make for a great soundtrack to the most adorable little taxidermy shop you’ve ever seen.” Garrett Weindorf (Urban Tulsa Weekly)

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