GAMBLES SHARES "WINTER" VIA TWITTER
NEW TOUR DATES
Download: "Winter" - https://soundcloud.com/whoisgambles/gambles-winter
Today, Gambles pleasantly surprised us as he took to Twitter to offer his fans a free download of a new song aptly titled "Winter." It turns out "Winter" is actually an outtake from the Rare Book Room sessions that bore his critically acclaimed debut LP, Trust. Gambles describes how the song took shape and why he chose to release it today, "I wrote this between takes while I was recording Trustat the Rare Book Room. Nicolas was changing something before we could move to the next song, and this happened in that little moment. It never made it on the record, but it feels right for today in more ways than one." Gambles also has a few new tour dates to share which can be seen just below.
Tour Dates:
1/30 - Vienna, VA @ Jammin' Java
1/31 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle *
2/1 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge !
* - w/ Craig Jenkins of Auctioneer
! - w/ Miles Garber
About Gambles:
Matthew Daniel Siskin began writing songs as Gambles in August 2012 with no goal or motive other than that the past few years needed addressing, and things that had gone unsaid for too long needed saying. The first song he released publicly was sang in a single take at the Rare Book Room with no words written. That was "Trust," the first song he would post on his tumblr and the same song that Pitchfork somehow found only a few weeks later and presented to the world. Gambles later returned to the Rare Book Room to record the Far From Your Arms EP, which was released via his very own GMBLS imprint distributed by Secretly Canadian. Gambles has now released his debut long-playerTrust via GMBLS.
Gambles is music and people, boiled down, sliced thin, and left to dry; yet it's clear that for Matthew, it's also everything, a life-saving perspective into events that demand to be acknowledged, registered, declared and when ready, left.
Press Quotes:
It's been a minute since we've posted the kind of stark, well-worn lo-fi folk that Gambles nails on "Far From Your Arms," a song which immediately conveys a very simple and real sadness and yearning, and then proceeds to hit harder upon each subsequent listen, thanks to some heavy lyrics and that weary, nearly broken voice.
- GORILLA V BEAR
Siskin's only song to date under the Gambles guise thus far is "Trust", a track that was recorded in Nicolas Vernhes' Rare Book Room studio earlier this year; it's a burned-out slice of doomy folk music featuring Siskin's cracked vocals and vague, ominous lyricism. According to that previously referenced "About" page, Siskin "will be releasing things soon" as Gambles, so hold tight.
- PITCHFORK
With "Safe Side," Gambles is furthering his place as a musician who can make sonicly sparse records that still carry a lot of heft, as they're hearty in lyrical content.
- STEREOGUM
With the recent unveiling of Matthew Daniel Siskin's moniker, Gambles, there is a long-dead burning within me to hear nothing but the acoustic guitar. It's rare in the current cold-beating music cloud to find an acoustic artist so determined to stand out and unshake our fingers from the laptop keys, and given the earnest, thick-skinned delivery of "Far From Your Arms", Gambles has me rapt.
- IMPOSE
For Matthew Daniel Siskin, life often resembles one gigantic juggling act. That's because when he's not serving as the founder and creative director of designed memory, the design studio which has worked with everyone from Beyoncé to Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen to jewelry designer Irene Neuwirth, the multi-talent performs as genteel acoustic crooner Gambles.
- ELLE
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