“It wasn't until I started playing shows with other GBC people where it started to feel comfortable,” he explains, having been booked initially as ‘Adam From Tigers Jaw’ and met with bemused reaction: “No one's coming to the show to clown on us or expecting something else there. Consisting of the late Lil Peep, Lil Tracy, and Horse Head amongst others, it became a way of propelling forwards each member and those adjacent. “I would just be on Tumblr for seven hours a day, meeting people and posting,” explains McIlwee, this leading to him crossing paths with a lot of the people he still works with today.Ī kindred partnership between an assortment of outsiders, the collective was integral for pushing the project forwards-and the new scene they represented. It was here, in the hours spent trawling through Tumblr when work ran dry, that Wicca Phase really came to life. He studied English at a nearby college, and, with little plans beyond music, later took up an office job in marketing. From practising with bands in the basement of his grandmother’s funeral shows to playing DIY shows thrown by friends, he integrated into the music landscape of northeastern Pennsylvania. A lot of these bands that I was in or my friends were in got successful, to some extent, and got signed to indie labels or stuff like that, and then moved on from there.” Gone are the days when every man, and his dad, was in a band. There should be good shopping, there should be good music venues, but they just don't last for whatever reason,” Mcllwee mediates. “It's more like a city where there should be stuff to do. It’s known for The Office, Nottingham Lace, and, from a Google deep dive, really not much else. A former coal mining capital, Scranton is the largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania. We catch up over Zoom ahead of the project’s release, where, after almost a lifetime of residing on the city’s outskirts, Mcllwee informs me of his upcoming move. “What I'm trying to do is describe this world wherein you can't pin down everything on a map, but if you were making a movie about it you could set the scenes.” “I wanted to build out the world of Wicca Phase, go back to what I was doing when I first started the project but with 10 years more of songwriting experience and a little bit more focus and maturity,” he says on the upcoming record, an introduction to this realm. Gearing up to the release of his self-titled full-length, McIlwee doubles down on this entirely, returning to his roots in worldbuilding. Everything feels almost tangible, if a little off-beat. To enter into it feels like greeting your double, sharing whispered secrets behind opaque walls, the allure of a hand offered to pass right through. Shrouded in mystery, he creates a new realm, with its lakes, mystic portals, black cats, and synchronicity it’s all a little off-kilter. He hasn’t met his-yet-but it’s been an ongoing fascination. But we also added an archive that we will add to regularly so visitors to our site can see some of Gus’s artifacts to get to know him better, as a person.The multi-instrumentalist has a thing about doppelgangers. We wanted to make beautiful designs and things for people wear, skate on, and generally “flex” to show their support for Gus. You connected with him because he told you that he was like you, and he expressed feelings like the ones you have. We felt that Gus’s fans-both current and future, would welcome the chance to get to know him a little better. So, to honor him, we created this website. Gus was particularly observant, and able to express his observations clearly and poetically. It was Gus’s honesty that compelled so many people, worldwide, to connect with him. I have learned from Peep fans that Gus was a powerful and influential lyricist and music artist. This website is run by Gus’s mom and brother. This is the official website of the Estate of Gustav Elijah Ahr, who came to be known by his fans as “Lil Peep.” Live Forever remains a fan favorite seven years later, treasured for its earnest lyrics and as a token of an artist still mastering the particulars of his craft. In a similar vein, the music video for the titular track (the project’s only associated video) was recorded spontaneously in late 2015 in Peep’s hometown of Long Beach, NY. Released just months before later breakthrough mixtapes, Peep’s Live Forever sees him unpolished and unrestrained all songs were recorded in his bedroom using GarageBand, over intense beats sent to him by producers he had met online. It also features samples of Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), and Radiohead's "Climbing Up The Walls". The tape showcases Gus’s love for alternative and gothic rock, sampling recognizable tracks such as The Cure’s “The Drowning Man” and Marilyn Manson’s “Coma White”. Gus released Live Forever in December 2015. We are pleased to announce that Live Forever is now available on all streaming platforms.
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