Fantasy Camp - Casual Intimacy (Red Vinyl)
LP
ABOUT THE ALBUM
Jonah David has been creating and releasing music as
Fantasy Camp since 2012, when he began producing and
making beat tapes at age 16 in small-town Pennsylvania.
Now based in Wilkes-Barre, and 10 years older, David has
built Fantasy Camp into a gothic dream pop powerhouse,
celebrating his first label release with Casual Intimacy on
Memory Music.
The record comprises seven tracks of bedroom-produced,
universe-sized dream pop, lo-fi R&B, indie rock, and elec-
tro-pop that document the aftermath of a long-term relation-
ship’s dissolution, and the complexities of dating outside of
the parameters of traditional, long-haul partnership. Casual
Intimacy captured that weirdness.
David grew up in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and started Fanta-
sy Camp as a faceless project to put out a massive collection
of mixtapes and production work. Over the years, he built up
confidence and desire for a different pace, and by 2018 start-
ed adding vocals to his work. Initially, he would record on his
phone’s voice memos function and clean it up on his comput-
er, but over the years he collected equipment to outfit a basic
bedroom studio setup.
Earlier releases played within cloud rap and emo rap, but
after hitting a creative wall with the genres he switched up his
approach, leaning toward his love for The Radio Department,
Cocteau Twins, and The Cure. 2021’s Long Way Home intro-
duced this vision, but Casual Intimacy defines and expands
it.
David wrote, recorded, and produced the album entirely in
his bedroom in late 2021 over a three week stretch, and Will
Yip mixed and mastered it. David’s decade-plus of home pro-
duction work means that Casual Intimacy punches far above
its weight for a bedroom project: it flies through rich, ethereal
soundscapes, springboarding listeners from the bedroom into
entire sonic worlds.
TRACKLIST
Side A
1. blood moon
2. casual intimacy
3. wakeup!
4. adeline
Side B
1. hiraeth
2. final breath
3. the last song
Jonah David has been creating and releasing music as
Fantasy Camp since 2012, when he began producing and
making beat tapes at age 16 in small-town Pennsylvania.
Now based in Wilkes-Barre, and 10 years older, David has
built Fantasy Camp into a gothic dream pop powerhouse,
celebrating his first label release with Casual Intimacy on
Memory Music.
The record comprises seven tracks of bedroom-produced,
universe-sized dream pop, lo-fi R&B, indie rock, and elec-
tro-pop that document the aftermath of a long-term relation-
ship’s dissolution, and the complexities of dating outside of
the parameters of traditional, long-haul partnership. Casual
Intimacy captured that weirdness.
David grew up in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and started Fanta-
sy Camp as a faceless project to put out a massive collection
of mixtapes and production work. Over the years, he built up
confidence and desire for a different pace, and by 2018 start-
ed adding vocals to his work. Initially, he would record on his
phone’s voice memos function and clean it up on his comput-
er, but over the years he collected equipment to outfit a basic
bedroom studio setup.
Earlier releases played within cloud rap and emo rap, but
after hitting a creative wall with the genres he switched up his
approach, leaning toward his love for The Radio Department,
Cocteau Twins, and The Cure. 2021’s Long Way Home intro-
duced this vision, but Casual Intimacy defines and expands
it.
David wrote, recorded, and produced the album entirely in
his bedroom in late 2021 over a three week stretch, and Will
Yip mixed and mastered it. David’s decade-plus of home pro-
duction work means that Casual Intimacy punches far above
its weight for a bedroom project: it flies through rich, ethereal
soundscapes, springboarding listeners from the bedroom into
entire sonic worlds.
TRACKLIST
Side A
1. blood moon
2. casual intimacy
3. wakeup!
4. adeline
Side B
1. hiraeth
2. final breath
3. the last song