About

Dance music, dark matter, direct message, dungeon master, distant memory—people have tried to decipher the meaning behind the name Rare DM, but really it’s the Brooklyn-based singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Erin Hoagg. Rare DM is Hoagg at her most vulnerable and visceral, as she mines dates, breakups and other adventures to make revealing, romantic darkwave dance-pop music. With a collection of vintage analog synths, Hoagg transforms the mundane into the magical, transposing real DMs she’s sent and received into songs that reflect on the fractured nature of modern communication and online dating. Her songs are dark and deeply intimate, rendering in raw detail the search for that special connection we all crave, but rarely find. Her 2019 debut album, Vanta Black, tackles subjects of longing and loneliness, moods that match its namesake—the darkest pigment ever created by man. Her new work continues to explore the dark side of modern life, but now she’s more seductress than sad girl. “Send Nudes” details a romance that unraveled in the DMs, her disaffected monotone occasionally breaking into a Billie Holiday-esque lilt. Her upcoming single Rolex echoes the acid techno of the 90s, as much as the distant future: a compelling piece of neon-lit hybrid pop for the age of information overload.

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