Randolph Chabot’s career is starting to look a lot like that of Conor Oberst.  There are the obvious connections with their early musical starts (Randolph is 22), and midwest background; however, it’s more their approach to the creation of music as a solitary experiment.  Chabot says that by 17 he’d written hundreds of songs, trying to find his sound.  Maybe one day we’ll hear those early demos like we did with Bright Eyes.

I first discovered Keepers as an eMusic exclusive, and couldn’t believe how varied and flexible Deastro was in songwriting.  You can grab a couple free tracks on his label site here.  I didn’t hear much chatter online, but it felt like only time before this home recording blossomed into a musical career.  Deastro’s first official LP, Moondagger, might be the release that does just that.

The first single “Parallelogram” does a good job of expanding on the concepts and sounds of his home recordings.  When asked about the new record, Chabot references “a dream about a prince, a kingdom, an evil King of Darkness, and a search for the mythical “Moondagger,” the bearer of which wields ultimate power.”  Sounds about right.  You can grab this first song here, but you’ll have to wait until June before you hear the rest of the album.

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