Adventure

After relocating to Baltimore from North Carolina, beatmaker <a href="spotify:artist:53Y8EJHnAHQbpFIVVcahA2">Benny Boeldt</a> started hanging out with Wham City, a loose performance art/musical collective including Dina Kelberman and <a href="spotify:artist:5Z3IWpvwOvoaWodujHw7xh">Dan Deacon</a>. Making music under the pseudonym Adventure and signed to Baltimore's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Carpark+Records%22">Carpark Records</a> (home to several Wham City-related acts), <a href="spotify:artist:53Y8EJHnAHQbpFIVVcahA2">Boeldt</a> carved his self-titled 2008 album primarily out of the 8-bit chiptune aesthetic. He continued this sound on a split 12" EP with <a href="spotify:artist:5Z3IWpvwOvoaWodujHw7xh">Deacon</a>, and sang on his album Bromst, both of which appeared on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Carpark%22">Carpark</a> in 2009. For his second album, he continued to embrace his digitized '80s roots, but took a gauzy approach, much like artists of the blossoming chillwave movement. He also incorporated his own vocals into his songs for the first time, resulting in wistful, starry-eyed new wave anthems. Lesser Known was released on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Carpark%22">Carpark</a> in the spring of 2011. Weird Work, which stepped away from vocal-centric pop tunes and combined skittering IDM beats with rich, fluorescent melodies, arrived in 2013. Three years later, <a href="spotify:artist:53Y8EJHnAHQbpFIVVcahA2">Boeldt</a> released the frantic, playful 8 of Cups, his first album under his own name. ~ Jason Lymangrover, Rovi