Initially known as serene producer Houses, Dexter Tortoriello, emerged in 2011 reinvented as Dawn Golden producing music that was the very antithesis of Houses. Drawing on doom metal bands like Neurosis to avant noise artists such as Xiu Xiu, the songs pound with a calm, but dire urgency. Now fostered under Mad Decent, Dawn Golden began as an experiment in different recording techniques, and quickly escalated as vocals were added and ideas rounded out. Releasing his first EP Blow in 2011, Dawn Golden received high praise from the likes of NPR and Pitchfork, before diving head first into recording songs for the first Dawn Golden LP Still Life, a three year endeavor built around stream-of-conscious craft that explores the doleful voids of addiction, love, and death.

All I Want is the first single from the Still Life LP and today Majestic Casual premiered the music video shot by Tyler T. Williams on the Fader. Depicting a dazed and love sick dreamer the video captures the romantic and extreme lengths a man will go to for his companion. Fueled by love lust, his hallucinations take him high above the earth escaping the harsh realities of the truth. When asked about the video’s concept Tortoriello responded,

“I wanted to do something that embodied the themes of the album without pointing a spotlight right at them. Mental illness is rarely depicted in an honest way on television and in movies. All you see are the straight jackets, the spit bubbling on the lips, the incoherent shouting and violence — for a lot of people it just comes as a disconnect. We wanted to show the beauty and despair and impossible realities that might exist behind those moments of mania and delusion.”

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