Blog: The Sly Oyster

To be perfectly honest, the video doesn't do much for me. It's just people doing everyday kind of things. But the song is quite good and that's what counts, right? State Shirt is really the nom de plume of Ethan Tufts. His music mangages to capture the futility of everyday life, the cycles we catch ourselves falling into, with interesting soundscapes, clanging guitars and manufactured danceable beats, that wouldn't be too out of place next to your Joy Division/New Order records. In this particular song, he's singing about the fear of airplanes and flying in [...]

• State Shirt - Fell Out of the Sky