Chicago-based singer-songwriter Jared DeMeester pens and records dreamy folk songs from his bedroom studio. With a home-recorded quality, DeMeester melds the intimate vocal character of 50’s jazz with mellow indie-folk warmth. Recording with a collection of hand-me-down mics in a 200 sq ft bedroom, DeMeester says he tries his best to achieve an honest sound that lives somewhere between his folk and jazz roots. “Woody creaks and traffic sounds are the sonic breath that seems to make these recordings a little more human.”
Check out DeMeester’s cautiously hush folk track, “Lobster Song,” The Midwestern singer-songwriter drops clever wordplay as his voice sways through a world of twinkling keys and well-placed string accents. There is a Sufjan Stevens shade of sparse instrumental folk throughout as DeMeester displays his serene side atop a crustacean theme.
“According to Phoebe Buffay, lobsters fall in love and mate for life, so it only seemed fitting to write a song about the search and sometimes painful wait for one’s lobster.”
