Alexei Shishkin Announces New LP with Video Game&Inspired Single

Having released four records in 2024 alone, musician, filmmaker, and self-described “label’s worst nightmare” Alexei Shishkin returns on June 27th with “Disco Elysium,” a fuzzy Slacker Indie single taken from September 5th’s ‘Good Times’ album on Rue Defense. Alexei Shishkin “[The] carefree word-play recalls Stephen Malkmus’ imperial run, or even Ty Segall’s more lucid, sedate moments.”  – CLASH MUSIC“Disco Elysium”  (Single / June 27th) “Shishkin’s compositions are always unassuming, but they’re never inessential.”  – STEREOGUMTaken From: ‘Good Times’ (LP / Sep 5th) “…Restless lo-fi chameleon…A fuzzy dose of clever pop songs and slacker “college rock” charm.”  – POST-TRASH “This song was inspired by the game Disco Elysium, which is maybe the greatest video game ever made. You’re a degenerate, amnesiac detective coming off a crazy bender, and you’re trying to solve a murder that happened in a small post-revolution town. The game covers everything from psychology to politics to lost love to life, death, and introspection. It’s honestly one of the most well-written, exciting things I’ve ever experienced. I play through it every two or three years, and I just so happened to be playing it when we recorded this song, so I wrote about it. Shout-out to Robert Kurvitz who wrote most of that [...]