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New Artist Feature: The Aphotic

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Written by Harley Lewis 
The Aphotic, a duo from Central, Texas, with producer and lead vocalist Jesse (Birth Name Jesus but began using the name Jesse from his first year in a school in Virginia) and guitarist Charlie. The duo first met in high school when Jesse was not producing any music. Charlie ended up going into a college with a scholarship for Orchestra in San Antonio, meanwhile Jesse went to a school in VA to study for a Criminology degree. Midway through Jesse's first year in college (fall, 2016) he began creating and writing music, "I ended up making a lot of bad music but I was enjoying making it" Jesse stated. By summer of 2017 Jesse had convinced his parents to allow him to go to Austin to pursue a music career. Jesse began engineering, producing and writing music for other artists in the area. Although Jesse enjoyed it, he wanted to produce his own music, so he picked up where he left off and began writing more music and got back in contact with Charlie.
Charlie met up with Jesse in Austin and Charlie played guitar over some of Jesse's tracks, 2 hours before Charlie arrived, Jesse began working on new music as he wasn't feeling anything he had previously made. Within 6 hours the duo had made their first track 'Dreams.' Due to the writing session going well, the duo decided to "Turn it into a thing. Like a project, and The Aphotic was born" Jesse has stated that picking a name for their 'project' was difficult, as they couldn't decide on what they should call themselves, but one night Jesse read something about the Aphotic Zone and it stood out to him because of its meaning. "It was so perfect" Jesse states, and goes on to say how him and Charlie believe if they called themselves anything else that their two released singles 'Dreams' or even 'Wrong Ways' wouldn't sound the same to us [listeners].

Dreams is a well produced song, with a mixture of amazingly produced music and beautifully written lyrics. I strongly believe that it was the perfect single for the duo's first release. Jesse's voice fits perfectly with the music and all together the song is just beautifully put together! Charlie's guitar rhythm and tab isn't too much nor too little, its just the right amount of everything.

Wrong Ways is also a well produced song, the calming guitar intro before changing into more of an upbeat song is great! Jesse's vocals and Charlie's guitar rhythms fit together perfectly and it wont be long until this song is at 1,000+ listens!! The lyrics in this song can have different meanings for everyone, Jesse could have written it about something completely different to what you think the meaning is, its almost like a mystery!!

Personally, I can see this duo going places in the future! I would recommend them to anyone, I think they can fit under multiple categories and that's what makes them unique! My personal favorite single so far is definitely Dreams! I suggest you all go and check them out on Spotify and show their music to others, I'm sure Charlie and Jesse would greatly appreciate it!

Listen to The Aphotic on Spotify.
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