Ferro Dormer is a Brooklyn-based artist working at the crossroads of the devotional, the absurd, and the uncomfortably human. With roots in folk songwriting and a fondness for degraded audio that sounds like it has bested the elements and stood the test of time, his upcoming LP, Look at This Ugly MF, explores themes of lost love, nostalgia, identity, and the feedback loop of attention – all in the age of content.
On his latest single, the gentle and moving “Joany,” Dormer takes the listener on a mystifying journey through complex emotions delivered with compassion and grace. The artist’s new single introduces the young pop genre-breaker as an empathetic songwriter who will proudly and fearlessly march towards the emotions most try to avoid. “Joany” explores the crisis that is the internet and social media craze that has the outside world in a chokehold. Across a sweeping arrangement and several mood shifts, Dormer takes the tragedy of a life online and how succumbing to the dopamine hit of your phone can steer one down a dangerous path. All while Dormer explores these pitfalls, musically, “Joany” takes on several shapes. What starts as an acoustic ballad transitions into a more hip-hop-oriented space before diving into electro-pop experimentation. Dormer’s new single is a head-spinning display of the artist’s diverse sound, all while doubling as an urgent message to the masses.
