Voyeur is 22 year-old Richmond, VA resident Robert Seawell. He brought this record to fruition slowly and brilliantly after experiencing a terrifying cardiac episode during his time as a pre-med student. He explains: "Experiencing the weakness and uncertainty of extended heart trouble without the support of health insurance took its psychological toll, and the questions of death, age, and impermanence were immediately of weight. Alongside such weighty contemplation exists liberation, and soon I stopped putting effort forth into what I did not care about. I would stay up through the night until around 8 AM to record before the construction started in the morning across the street. I really drew inspiration from Jamie XX's production, Tropics' organic take on electronic, and Drake's/Kanye's emotive use of auto-tune. I came across Blake Eiseman, who had worked with Justin Bieber, Akon, and Destiny's Child, and felt that his mixing could provide a nice contrast to my more emotive vocals and lyricism. Every song on this album reflects this basic understanding that so much of human motive is tripping over itself to call something righteous, to be able to point at something and say, 'That's it! That's what this is all for!'"
"The overall effect draws obvious comparison to the work of electronic minimalist singer/songwriter James Blake, as well as the kind of music that was called dubstep in the UK, before American DJs like Skrillex turned it into moshpit music for summer festivals--the spooky, nocturnal ambience of groups like Burial, Kode9, and Digital Mystikz."-- RVA Magazine
"One might hear his gentle falsetto and think he may be alongside Prince or Maxwell"--This Is Book's Music
"As one of the more recent additions to the spacey sub-genre’s ever-burgeoning arsenal of talent, Voyeur (the stage moniker of Richmond, Virginia-based 22-year-old Robert Seawell) could very well end up being the form’s newest break-out sensation."-- Mixtape Maestro
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