Daily Discovery: BYSTS, “Taste”

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ARTIST: BYSTS

SONG: “Taste”

HOMETOWN: Salt Lake City, Utah / Recife, Brazil

CURRENT LOCATION: Salt Lake City, Utah

AMBITIONS: Hopefully making great music that resonates with people.

TURN-OFFS: Popsicle sticks.

TURN-ONS: Popsicles.

DREAM GIG: Playing with Primal Scream & Spiritualized.

FAVORITE LYRIC: “Shoot speed / kill light.”

SONG I WISH I WROTE: “Heroes” by David Bowie. I tear up every time I hear that song.

5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Brian Eno, Ray Davies, Bobby Gillespie, David Bowie, Jason Pierce.

MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Seeing The Jesus and Mary Chain play PsychoCandy at Levitation last year. That was pretty moving.

I WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE… I feel like the song mostly wrote itself. I just tried to stay open enough to let it happen.

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