On Euphonic, the debut solo album from Daemon, nostalgia makes a head-on collision with the future. Old school boom bap meets hi-hat sizzle. Guitars that could have been recorded by a grunge legend mesh with modern, layered hip-hop production. All serve to back up Daemon’s melodic hooks and incisive bars, which convey the angst of our age from the perspective of an artist who’s living through it — and yeah, sometimes going through it.
Euphonic is for the latchkey kids who roamed neighborhoods on bikes without a cellphone in sight. This one’s for the skate rats who saw ruined concrete and turned it into art. This one’s for the people who remember when rappers were emcees first and foremost, when having something to say was more important than being an influencer. Daemon wonders, can we go back? Maybe — but only if we’re also ready to go forward.
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Daemon is an outlier. He’s particularly adept at navigating two distinct worlds; the glamorous and the gritty, the soulful and the hardcore.
A rapper, songwriter, performer, and producer from St. Louis, MO, this same nimbleness informs his music. Cleverly incorporating bars that demand a rewind over production that gets stuck in your head, Daemon has plenty to offer Hip-Hop purists and partiers alike.
As an artist, he deftly balances hard within soft: cold shade eclipses warm praise, and sincere love lines topple biting satire. Daemon is Shakespearean: his lyrics are tongue-in-cheek, bold yet nuanced. They flow from him as easily as blood in a tragedy, and you can't help but want to watch as he cuts up politics and pop culture and serves it to us, unflinching.
The world has taken notice. Daemon's tracks have been featured everywhere, from Bernie Sanders walkouts ("Feel Good") to Xbox Exclusives ("Turn the World Around" in Forza Horizon 5 or "Confidence Man" in The Crew 2) to Netflix shows (Inventing Anna, Daybreak, Work It, Locke & Key, Easy) to ads (Mini Cooper, Sephora, the ACLU) to TBS shows (the Jordan Peele-produced The Last O.G.). Daemon has also collaborated with Killer Mike and Trackstar the DJ from Run the Jewels, DJ Shadow, and more.
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