PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED TO AXS.COM

According to Grandstand Media & Management in Los Angeles, California, a winter breeze is going to hit the United States from coast to coast. On January 22, 2015, audiences in select cities will be flocking to venues to catch Space-age R&B/ Electro-pop duo, Beacon, performing live. The Winter Tour 2015 hits 10 cities between January 22 and February 20. This Brooklyn-born duo is also to release a new EP, entitled L1, due to hit the public on December 2 of this year. L1 is their fourth studio album release.

This project release is interesting, because aside from being released under the Ghostly International label, it sounds as if you are in a paranormal realm. Psychoacoustics have been manipulated to give air and space between vocal layers, “anchoring the music assuredly to your flesh, bone and physical sense,” as Beacon’s publicists have stated. They wanted to evoke an out-of-body experience unlike no other, unique of falsetto R&B tunes in the traditional markets. Tracks off of this album show a true evolution of Beacon, as artists, as opposed to musicians. Their art is embraced and projected on this album for sure!

This album was mixed by Al Carlson, who has worked on Autre, Ne Veut’s Anxiety album, as well as St. Vincent’s Marry Me. And while Beacon’s L1 is only a five track EP, hours can be spent recapturing the emotion and experience you were meant to feel, while sensing “a natural phenomenon in gravitation physics known as Lagrangian points.” As a matter of fact, singer and producer, Thomas Mullarney III “wanted to stage intimacy and desire as natural forces spinning with reflex and intuition, caught within different spheres of influence.” It was explained to AXS that L1 is actually the point in space where a satellite can fall into sync with the Earth’s orbit around the sun when caught between two gravitational pulls and never falling out of sync. This is the beauty of physics when it is used to detail real life!

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Opening for the Winter Tour, Australian-native, Josef Salvat prepares to perform his debut singles to audiences across the country. In contrast to Beacon’s line up, audiences are set up to see “a sensitive male crooner-type, whose music can still appeal to people who aren’t necessarily into male crooner types,” as KCRW explains. He also “just elbowed his way to the front of the year’s ‘pop guys to watch’ queue,” reports FADER.

Songs like “Hustler,” “The Life” and “Every Night” show that his versatility is something to watch for. He combines the sound of ’80s and ’90s pop, that still leave us listening to Top 40 of the past, with new upbeat rhythms found in EDM. And while he sings about loves lost, The Guardian has painted him as creating “intriguing, intelligent, tantalizingly twisted stuff.” Currently located in London, the United States won’t be meeting with him until his debut next year at SXSW. One way to see him before his arrival, however, would be to attend one of show dates for the Winter Tour 2015 by Beacon.

Be sure to catch one of the dates below to see both great acts performing live!