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Founding member of The Head and The Heart, Josiah Johnson left the band in 2016 and now focuses on releasing solo music through ANTI- records out in LA.
ABOUT JOSIAH JOHNSON
After releasing his first-ever solo album, Every Feeling on a Loop (ANTI-Records), songwriter Josiah Johnson is aware he wasn’t supposed to be here. Just five years ago when he took a leave of absence from the acclaimed indie-folk band, The Head and the Heart, the question was less where Johnson's star would take him and more whether his struggles with addiction would end his music career. But then, he wasn’t supposed to be there, either. Prior to co-founding the band, Johnson studied math and computer science in graduate school. But the magic of song led him to an open mic that changed his life. At Seattle’s Conor Byrne Pub, Johnson sparked collaborations with fellow musicians who would eventually form The Head and the Heart.
On Every Feeling on a Loop, lush musical arrangements and harmonies support Johnson’s baritone crooning. At times, the songs sound like prayers. At others, his exuberance feels like the euphoria he’d always sought, this time hard-earned and wiser. He says he feels like a new person making it, charting his journey out of the dark into the wide awake of the morning, using the magic that was his all along.
ABOUT THE SEA THE SEA
The Sea The Sea, Chuck E. Costa and Mira Costa, is an Upstate New York based indie folk-pop duo featuring what Bob Boilen (NPR’sAll Songs Considered) calls “excellent harmonies” & Huffington Post calls, “Two of the loveliest male-female voices you might ever hear this or any other year.” The group’s 2020 release,Stumbling Home, dubbed “otherworldly” byRolling Stonemarks the duo’s third full-length album, and the duo’s first primary recording / engineering credits on one of their albums, as well as that of co-producers—teaming up with recent Grammy and Tony award winner Todd Sickafoose (Hadestown, Anais Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird). Previous releases from The Sea The Sea—Love We Are We Love(2014),In theAltogether(2016 / EP), andFrom The Light(2018)—have been praised by outlets includingNPR,American Songwriter, andNo Depression, and the animated video for their song "Waiting"sparked viral interest from Buzzfeed and Pitchfork, as well as inclusion at the international TED2015 conference. The band has garnered features across all music platforms including AppleMusic “Best of the Week” and “A-List Singer/Songwriter,” gathering 20+ million streams onSpotify to-date. Live performance broadcast appearances of The Sea The Sea includeMountainStage, with host Larry Groce calling them "ready to take their place among the best young male/female duos now performing,”Audiotree, andPaste Music / Daytrotter—recently describing the band as "defined by their infallible vocal harmonies and their unconventional song arrangements. The Sea The Sea is a pop band only in their melodic infectiousness—otherwise they are at their best when subverting conventions.