Growing Bin introduces Shy Layers

New Yorker JD Walsh is next on the charming Hamburg label with a self-titled album. 

Hamburg’s Growing Bin Records is a self-professed ‘micro-label’ and online record shop that has developed at a natural pace out of The Growing Bin, a long-running online resource dedicated to forgotten record-shaped curios. Overseen by Sebastian ‘Basso’ Grätz, Growing Bin’s label adventures began in earnest with a trawl through the unreleased archives of late ’80s German ambient jazz noodlers Merge, and has gone on to profile the various projects of Australian producer Andras Fox as well as present a vinyl edition of Moon B’s Lifeworld tape for 1080p. having issued a solo album from Ptaki’s Bartosz Kruczyński just last month, news arrives Growing Bin are setting their sights across the Atlantic with an album from New York’s Shy Layers.

Quite possibly taking his name from a tool in Adobe software After Effects, Shy Layers is the synth pop production alias of Brooklyn-based JD Walsh whose arrival on Growing Bin comes after he self-released a pair of albums through Bandcamp. The majority of the upcoming self-titled album for Growing Bin is made up of tracks from those two digital-only releases, though “SEG” looks to be a previously unreleased Shy Layers cut. As a whole, the album sees Walsh fuse “French pop, glistening Americana, 80s AOR and afrobeat into a hazy vision” and you can get a taste via the below five-track sampler.

Growing Bin Records will release Shy Layers by Shy Layers on July 20.

Tracklisting:

A1. Black and White
A2. Famous Faces
A3. You Wont Find Me
A4. Stabilized Waves
A5. Too Far Out
B1. Holding It Back
B2. Playing The Game
B3. Bees and Bamboo
B4. SEG
B5. 1977

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