James Supercave

Fairfax Recordings

Opaque in an age of Internet transparency, James Supercave’s approach to pop stardom is a bit less visible and a little more strange.

Beyond the fragmentary web presence, the pixel personality, the blogger hearsay—to know James Supercave is to listen to the music. Supercave assumes the pop idiom, filling its dimensions (drums, synth, guitar, bass, vocals) while continually charting its fringes. The result: modern eccentricities thrown Pollock-like against psych pop–a sound that is cerebral in lyric and muscular in command of beat and groove.

Whether in winking jabs at corporations, or in frustration anthems angled at the internet native, James Supercave offers an uncompromising mirror to life’s edges: the smooth, the rough-hewn, the odd-angled. James Supercave, the pixelated face of many, offers urgency to preserve the human in it all.

After sharing stages with Future Islands, Warpaint, Chet Faker, and Jungle, James Supercave partnered with  Fairfax Recordings for their debut LP, Better Strange, set to release in February 2016.