Dosey’s new EP ‘maybe i’m just terrified’ is a visceral, cathartic listening experience composed of three singles and three respective demos. The art of the demo and the gap it bridges between artist and listener is not lost on Dosey. It’s a dying art that’s been with him since the start of his career – and he’s committed to keeping it alive.
Stream: “Cold Weather” – Dosey
I’m obsessed with putting out demos. I wish that more artists and my favorite artists would do that.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day (March 17, 2025) and I feel like the luckiest critic in the world to be in attendance at Dosey’s EP listening party at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
He filled up the theater with close friends, family, and members of the music industry to celebrate the release of maybe i’m just terrified and listen to the 6-track project in Dolby Atmos and total darkness. I’d never listened to a project in Dolby Atmos before and don’t think I’ll ever listen the same way again. From all corners of the theater, the precise complexities of his orchestral capstones as recorded at the mythical Shangri-La would fill the room against his raw and unapologetic demos as recorded oftentimes in his bedroom.
“The difference between the produced out stuff we made at Shangri-La and the demos is that my goal with putting the demos out is for people to have a more intimate relationship with the lyrics versus the music. And that’s why Shang’s super cool, we got to take all these live instruments and build it into this whole world for every song. There’s no better place that I could imagine doing it. I’m lucky.”
Dosey has been making music since he was a little kid, often strolling around his childhood home and creating melodies. In high school, he put out a song called “Sunday Morning” on SoundCloud, straight from the voice memos of his iPhone 4S, and watched it soar to a quarter million streams. This unfiltered catharsis is a cornerstone of who Dosey is and has always been as an artist.
“Most of my songs I write at home by myself which is my preferred method of creating. Shang challenged me a lot to expand on these processes of bringing stuff into the world. With Tyler, we wrote that song (“Cold Weather”) so fast. It was super organic, it felt super natural, the words were just flowing out, and that was really cool. It shifted my whole perspective on collaboration and songwriting. That’s something I really value in my relationship with Tyler because I just don’t have that kind of connection with a lot of people I work with.”
Objectively, maybe i’m just terrified stands out to me as a listener because it feels like Dosey is challenging himself to grow while honoring his roots all at once. The whole thing feels like a serendipitous twist of fate.
His manager Chene Castrodale brought together Dosey, Tyler Harris, and Cody Doss to write and record the project together at Shangri-La.
The results? A timeless yet rooted in place collection of emotive innermost anxieties. Dosey takes that sacred space of writing from his bedroom and makes it a part of the vulnerable and intimate songs he pens.
“It’s been over a year since we went to Shang for the first time. Even though the project is new, I listen to it and I get all these memories. “Sacrifices” and “Cold Weather” really bring me there.”
Listening to the project in Dolby Atmos surrounded by people he loved and looked up to was a turning point for Dosey in his career. There was an energy of focus and concentration in the room that the music demanded. It really felt like we were there with Dosey in his bedroom creating these tracks together. It was the closest I’ve been to a project like that ever.
“I almost felt like I didn’t even deserve to be there. I didn’t feel like it was about me, it felt like we were all watching a movie or something. I don’t know if it will ever feel real. I’ve heard a lot of musicians and creatives say that when it starts to work out. This is year 12 of me putting out music and year 1 of it starting to work.”
Dosey is riding the high of momentum and has bold aspirations to drop an album in the future.
“I have so many songs I want to put out,” he admits. Before that happens though, you can see him headline the Mint on April 25th.
“I was trying to make myself at home, which is what I try to do anywhere I go honestly.”
That spirit of comfortability, of ease, breathes through the entire EP. That’s why this works. Dosey is that same enamored kid who fell in love with music, he’s just a little older now and a little more terrified than he once was.
Dosey’s maybe i’m just terrified EP is out now.
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