Jess Garten
Shannon Sky Madden and Jess Labrador of Chasms have gone through a lot of upheaval over the past year. The electro-pop duo relocated from the fertile Bay Area music scene to Los Angeles, and according to them, their sound shifted with the move, replacing sheets of guitar and synth with a more spacious dub-inspired approach.
The painful truth is that all of that change was the result of a tragedy: the fire at the Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship that took the lives of 36 people last December. Among them were Madden’s younger brother Griffin and Cash Askew, a fellow musician who appeared in the music video for “Beyond Flesh,” a song from Chasms’ 2016 debut, On the Legs of Love Purified.