Emerging US artist slimdan releases debut EP 'to anyone who cares', alongside new single 'magazines' on April 1st through Communion Records
After a flurry of fresh and exciting cuts throughout this year, including ‘MVP’, his Garrett Nash collaboration ‘Super Glue’, ‘Be Somebody’ and ‘Politics & Party Tricks’, emerging artist slimdan has now unveiled his highly-anticipated debut EP ‘to anyone who cares’, alongside the new lead single ‘Magazines’.
While ‘Magazines’ maintains much of slimdan’s distinctly sweet and laid-back approach, the new offering finds him in a more lovelorn guise. Stripping back his usually broad and euphoric production for a simple piano-led melody, he serenades us with this warm and alluring gem that stands as one of the more heartfelt efforts on his new collection.
Speaking about ‘Magazines’, slimdan said, "Magazines is one of those songs that I didn’t know I had to write until after the fact. My team had booked me for a session with a producer and another artist in North Hollywood. When the artist bailed last minute I found myself with a studio space, a chipotle chicken bowl, and for the first time in a minute - time to think. The other writer (Brian Brundage) and I decided to spend the day “writing for the sake of writing” and we ended up stumbling onto the most personal song I’ve ever written.
When my wife (high school girlfriend at the time) and I started dating her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. It was the first time in my life I had experienced death, and I felt hopeless being the acne ridden new boyfriend in the family dynamic. Going through that experience with her and her family bonded us in a way that I don’t think I was able to articulate until making this song. Brian had just gone through a similar experience with the person he was seeing and once the word “magazines” was thrown out to the room we both knew what to write about.
The song was written by myself and long time collaborator Brian Brundage (Tai Verdes). I produced it with another long time collaborator Ryan Linvill (Olivia Rodrigo) over the course of 2021. Ethan Gruska added some beautiful keys to the track and I’m really proud of how it came out!"
While adding about the new EP, “shalom. My EP “to anyone who cares” is a collection of five songs that were made over the past two years. It’s mostly me dealing with the desire to be heard and understood, while simultaneously feeling like what I want to say doesn’t matter. Over the years leading to this project I was hyper aware of the fact that thousands of people release music every day that nobody cares about, and that we live in a time where trends, style, and opinion change on what feels like a minute to minute basis. It took me some time to feel confident enough in myself and my story, and while I hope the whole world gets to hear these songs, I’m more interested in the people who want to hear these songs.
I discuss “really important” stuff ranging from the hit ABC reality show ‘The Bachelor’, to my fascination with Florida, to my experience with watching someone I love lose a parent. I tried really hard to make songs that I would want to listen to, and hope that comes across in the EP. I fucking love this “music” thing that I get to do every day, and I’m just super stoked to be putting this out. Please don’t be mad at me.”
‘To Anyone Who Cares’ tracklisting
Politics & Party Tricks
Hollywood, FL
MVP
Magazines
Be Somebody
Slimdan has also recently been announced as support for Sasha Alex Sloan on her ‘I Blame The World’ 2022 North American Tour. More info HERE. Full list of dates below:
JULY
21 – Minneapolis
22 – Chicago
24 – Detroit
26 – Toronto
27 – Montreal
29 – Brooklyn, New York
31 – Boston
AUGUST
2 – Philadelphia
4 – Silver Spring, Maryland
5 – Charlotte, North Carolina
6 – Atlanta
20 – Vancouver
21 – Seattle
23 – Portland
25 – San Francisco
28 – Los Angeles
30 – San Diego
SEPTEMBER
1 – Salt Lake City, Utah
2 – Denver
4 – Oklahoma City
6 – Dallas
7 – Austin
8 – Houston
10 - Nashville
Growing up in a modern Orthodox family and attending Jewish school in Sherman Oaks in his formative years, Danny Silberstein found his way to the guitar through his mom’s love of music. “She has amazing taste,” he shares, “and was exposing me to artists from Paul Simon to Moby to 50 Cent when I was a kid. That’s how I found my way to playing and writing songs.”
After four years at college in Boston, Silberstein returned to Los Angeles where he “had every intention of working in a coffee shop and trying to tour in an indie band.” Instead, he started getting invited into pop sessions. “I was bored of guys with acoustic guitars and didn’t think the universe needed another one, so exploring the way other artists create was really interesting to me.”
His first collaboration, with singer songwriter Sasha Alex Sloan—one of his best friends since the age of 15—was the ballad ‘Older’ which kick started his career and led to work with artists like Diplo, Ethan Gruska, and King Henry. “Before I knew it,” Silberstein recalls, “I had several years of pop writing under my belt.” Writing his own songs though, wasn’t really on his mind.
As his songwriting evolved, Danny assumed the moniker Slimdan — a throwback to his fourth grade screenname, which he chose after memorizing Eminem’s ‘Mockingbird’ in homage to Slim Shady. Silberstein finished his forthcoming five track EP shortly after. It connects the dots between his irreverent wit, knack for writing sophisticated pop hooks, and diverse early musical influences to reveal an authentic talent: a unique brand of outsider indie rock that rivals the genre’s finest.
Opening song ‘Politics & Party Tricks’, written “after staying at a party for a personal, record-breaking, seven minutes,” shows off his flair for harmonies as it quips “all I’m ever thinking about is what everybody’s thinking of me, (nobody’s thinking of me).” ‘Hollywood, FL’, a rousing anthem about a visit to the Sunshine State, where he “ended up buying weed from a 70 year old man who kept calling me ‘bub’ in his backseat outside a beach resort,” describes what Danny candidly refers to as “a mindfuck” of existential dread against a sprawling rock chorus. “I don’t actually do cocaine,” he confesses, “but it sounded cooler than weed, so I said that instead.” ‘Be Somebody’ balances pop, folk, and electronic music with cheeky intimacy to describe a “quarter life crisis moment when I was living with my mom, and she called to ask what cereal I wanted from the grocery store. I was imagining 15 year old me roasting the shit out of 24 year old me.”
When talking about his forthcoming releases, Danny explains that he “just want[s] to write songs and work with artists [he] loves. I don’t take myself too seriously.” Like his EP’s track ‘MVP’, an artful folk-pop ballad that tells the tale of a little league game gone awry, Silberstein’s voice refreshingly defies expectations with irreverent honesty: “In that moment, I got so panicked while I was pitching that I started crying and everyone stopped the game to clap for me,” he shares. “I’ve been chasing that attention ever since. Hence this stupid artist project.”
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