Accessory, the solo project of Jason Balla, singer & guitarist of DEHD, shares new single “This Is Not Your Life (Static)” a track off their forthcoming album Dust. Balla shares: “I wanted to capture that feeling of that moment in love when you cease to be the central figure in your own story.” The song “is about vulnerability and commitment and the beauty of submission. It’s life in the service of something beyond. As the song continues it becomes less about transcendence and slides into the realm of obsessive regret, depression and the lasting grip of intimacy now past.”

Accessory will embark on a lengthy North American headline tour this Spring. The forthcoming album also follows last year’s singles and opening slots for Cindy Lee, Protomartyr, & Diiv.

Balla has always been a prolific creator and held a distinctly DIY attitude. At an early age he was running sound in downtown clubs and booking shows across a network of Chicago warehouses and basements where he was first exposed to both experimental music and the possibility of alternative lifestyles. In a testament to his assiduous artistic nature, Dust was recorded on equipment mostly built by himself in his home studio.

Much of the record’s foundation was orchestrated on the piano—a gift from his mother after her passing in 2018. Six years later, after nearly non-stop touring, a break-up with a live-in partner and subsequent couch surfing, Balla found enough stability to move it out of storage. Mornings writing on the piano offered a new perspective on composition and a way to commune with his mother’s memory.

There is a sense of release and transcendence through Balla’s work. It’s a lo-fi heliograph with a Cindy Lee-like tenderness, taking notes from the Copenhagen electro-acoustic scene, SML and the experimental jazz world: an act of discovery that finds its tones amidst guitar feedback and soft balladry.

Released last month, lead single “Calcium” is buoyed by persistent percussion that accompanies Balla’s relentless vocals that recite images of power and tools of violence, contrasting panicked emotional states with dense instrumental beauty. It was named in Stereogum’s Best Songs of the Week, and covered at Alt Press, Brooklyn Vegan, FLOOD Magazine and more. Follow up single “Safeword” expands over a sprawling, sumptuous, dream-like immersion of frantic guitars while Balla wrestles with the very notion of love, reckoning about losing oneself in its pursuit.

Pre-order Dust by Accessory HERE