atlgrandma is the artist Liam Hall, a key figure in Los Angeles’s leftfield pop community:
pensive, digitally curdled music that blends rock, rap, pop, and dance music in new
absurdist ways. As a producer, Hall has helped shape the sounds of fellow artists like
Willow, Snow Wife, Dorian Electra, The Hellp, D4ine, Izzy Spears, ericdoa, and Frost
Children. Frequent collaborators include pop masterminds Lil Aaron and Y2K.
Prior to LA, atlgrandma lived in the suburbs of Atlanta, where his family had resettled
after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Youtube was his playground: He learned to
play guitar, produce music, shoot videos and develop basic fine motor skills all at once.
Releases like 2019’s "Even If We Don’t Get It Together" and 2022’s "Angelhood" further
explored the brain rot of the chronically online, and detailed the dead-end promises of
Western culture with a big Cheshire Cat grin.
“Nightmare Blunt Rotation”, which arrives August 9, is a perfect distillation of
atlgrandma’s sincerely demented, dementedly sincere worldview. Recalling Odelay-era
Beck, it’s also a masterful piss-take of the kinds of punishers you can and do meet at
parties in Los Angeles. “Reaper”, which comes in September, combines the blown-out
sound of vintage bloghouse with a surprisingly compassionate encounter with Death
himself.
Earlier this year atlgrandma toured with Dorian Electra and Frost Children, and
co-produced their triple-billed rave-up “We Invented Love,” which landed just in time for
summer. His newly launched, semi-regular warehouse event series with fellow
provocateur Ky Newman falls somewhere between party and performance art, and
returns after Labor Day.
“Nightmare Blunt Rotation” is out August 9 on smartdumb, a new label by producer Nick
Sylvester, creative co-founder of godmode (Channel Tres, Yaeji, Pawpaw Rod, etc).
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