You can find it on soundcloud called Glass Mural. Sure, I feel more comfortable as a producer than musician so I do electronic music in my spare time. You have maintained a very clean sound throughout your musical career but with the garage rock and DJ scene blossoming in the Bay City Area, was there ever any moment where you felt that you wanted to embrace a more raucous or electronically driven sound? I'm on the 2nd record and have toured all around, I'm a very different person but still shocked that I got to do any of this at all. Idle labor was a good representation of where I was at during that time, living with my parents in Lathrop and having no idea that one day someone would put the record out. Over time I acquired better equipment after the first album and spent a lot of time experimenting with atmosphere and detail. Idle labor was a product of limitations I didn't own any of the equipment during that album.
Fresh off the back of his sophomore release on the forever glorious label 'Captured Tracks', we spoke to Craft Spells' leading man Justin Vallesteros about his latest effort 'Nausea' and the elements that contributed to the record's development.ĭid you make a conscious effort not to regurgitate the lo-fi sound of ‘Idle Labor’ and embrace a more traditional and sophisticated instrumentation? Do you associate the sound of that record with a different you?