Gel Set

Gel Set is the dark, minimal electropop solo project of multimedia artist Laura Callier, who is also a writer and videographer. Her other music projects include Simulation, a collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:7JbFsfhiuS2Aq2PNMt1bju">Matchess</a>' Whitney Johnson; Athleisure, which also features <a href="spotify:artist:5cVphcm0FP2N0GXVl9csxh">Tarnation</a>'s Jason Ogawa; and God Vol. 1, a duo with visual artist Nicole Ginelli. Callier grew up in Houston, where she watched music videos by <a href="spotify:artist:6tbjWDEIzxoDsBA1FuhfPW">Madonna</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6DCIj8jNaNpBz8e5oKFPtp">the Cars</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:1bDWGdIC2hardyt55nlQgG">Weird Al</a>, and taught herself to pick out the tunes to her favorite songs on a handheld keyboard. Eventually, she landed in Chicago; while getting her M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Sound, she became a vital part of the city's experimental electronic community. Taking inspiration from artists as disparate as <a href="spotify:artist:5O5V29YvM6AzAQ0rNt59fy">Karen Dalton</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:04tBaW21jyUfeP5iqiKBVq">Scott Walker</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1BGN1IdyiSR0ZYrkoKNchl">Tangerine Dream</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0z5DFXmhT4ZNzWElsM7V89">Erasure</a>, Callier began issuing music as Gel Set in the early 2010s, including 2012's mini-album Cell Jets on Modern Tapes and a 2014 collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:0Fizr7mj4ZCvfm6nGFZ1KB">Stacian</a> on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Moniker+Records%22">Moniker Records</a>. The following year, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Moniker%22">Moniker</a> released her first full-length, Human Salad, a more fleshed-out version of her stark but alluring sound. After moving to Los Angeles to pursue sound design, Callier further refined Gel Set's music on Body Copy, which arrived on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%222MR%22">2MR</a> in 2017. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi