How I Lost My Voice

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How I Lost My Voice is a five-track CD-EP by the American indie-pop act Golf Slang, a side-project by guitarist Jamey Bozeman of Luxury fame, released on Velvet Blue Music in June 2022.

Pink. Low. Sad. Dayglow.

The influences on Golf Slang’s new EP could have been pulled from the magnetic poetry on a refrigerator door littered with coloring pages and long-passed announcements.

As Jamey Bozeman cobbled the songs together that would become Golf Slang’s next EP, “How I Lost My Voice,” he found himself in a brightly-decorated Airbnb in Florida on vacation, a respite from the pandemic and his duties as a priest in the Eastern Orthodox church.

“I had been doing work on some rather dark instrumental material, and the bright ‘Florida colors’ of the space offered an inspiring counterpoint to what I was writing,” Bozeman said. “I came home with some photos of the Airbnb and some new song ideas, which I filed under the working title of ‘Fantasy Island.’ And so a theme kind of evolved from the trip. I wanted this record to feel kind of sad and to sound pink.”

Bozeman is best known as a founding member and guitarist of cult rock outfit Luxury, but Golf Slang is more electronic in nature, harkening to his affinity for New Wave with beats and basslines reminiscent of Vince Clarke’s best – Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure, you pick.

The EP’s first single, «In Even Strokes», could easily be the driving centerpiece of an ‘80s action-thriller, it’s beat pulsing as the hero navigates the city and street lights streak across tinted windows. The title track showcases an understated but powerful vocal – think Alan Sparhawk of Low – but the EP opens with the track around which Bozeman built the rest of the songs. «Sugar Cake», borrows its opening lyric and title from a song in the operetta, “Candide,” based on the novel by Voltaire and composed by Leonard Bernstein.

“I can’t say I know much about either Voltaire’s, ‘Candide,’ or the operetta, but the lyrics of this one song – ‘Make Our Garden Grow’ – are profound in some ways and terribly hopeless in others,” Bozeman said. “I helped myself to the line ‘I thought the world was sugar cake,’ as an image of how we easily miss the true nature of our existence and what our lives are meant to be spent on.”

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EP tracklist:

01. Sugar Cake – 2:56
02. How I Lost My Voice – 6:02
03. In Even Strokes – 4:17
04. Let’s Grow Old – 3:14
05. Fast Forward & Rewind – 5:33

Note: Released on both cassette and CD. Available at Bandcamp: https://golfslang.bandcamp.com/album/how-i-lost-my-voice

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