Description
ABOUT THE ALBUM
Jonah David has been creating and releasing music as
Fantasy Camp since 2012, when he began producing and
making beat tapes at age 16 in small-town Pennsylvania.
Now based in Wilkes-Barre, and 10 years older, David has
built Fantasy Camp into a gothic dream pop powerhouse,
celebrating his first label release with Casual Intimacy on
Memory Music.
The record comprises seven tracks of bedroom-produced,
universe-sized dream pop, lo-fi R&B, indie rock, and elec-
tro-pop that document the aftermath of a long-term relation-
ship’s dissolution, and the complexities of dating outside of
the parameters of traditional, long-haul partnership. Casual
Intimacy captured that weirdness.
David grew up in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and started Fanta-
sy Camp as a faceless project to put out a massive collection
of mixtapes and production work. Over the years, he built up
confidence and desire for a different pace, and by 2018 start-
ed adding vocals to his work. Initially, he would record on his
phone’s voice memos function and clean it up on his comput-
er, but over the years he collected equipment to outfit a basic
bedroom studio setup.
Earlier releases played within cloud rap and emo rap, but
after hitting a creative wall with the genres he switched up his
approach, leaning toward his love for The Radio Department,
Cocteau Twins, and The Cure. 2021’s Long Way Home intro-
duced this vision, but Casual Intimacy defines and expands
it.
David wrote, recorded, and produced the album entirely in
his bedroom in late 2021 over a three week stretch, and Will
Yip mixed and mastered it. David’s decade-plus of home pro-
duction work means that Casual Intimacy punches far above
its weight for a bedroom project: it flies through rich, ethereal
soundscapes, springboarding listeners from the bedroom into
entire sonic worlds.
TRACKLIST
Side A
1. blood moon
2. casual intimacy
3. wakeup!
4. adeline
Side B
1. hiraeth
2. final breath
3. the last song
