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Digital anonymity does not always function as a binary in the modern digital age: identity unknown/ fully revealed.  Especially in the creation of art online, it is more like the selection of forms unknown to shape a new known identity.  Digital Phantoms is that kind of musical act, constantly moving and reshaping, but never really hidden.  
 Since moving to Mexico in 2020, producer/musician Vincent Gray wanted to take advantage of the ability to collaborate with anyone in any place.  He began a collaboration with long time bandmate J.R. Wicker in Atlanta and brother Ernie Gray in Nashville, TN.  EP1 became a collection of moody, prog, hiphop, and dream pop tracks, representative of the creative breadth of styles in which Gray can produce.  
 Around the same time, Vince continued producing and collaborating with his brothers, this time producing a collection of songs co-written with his twin brother Adam.  The project became a release under the moniker Twin Signals, and represented the music that the brothers absorbed together while growing up and playing in bands while in East Tennessee—primarily 60s - 90s rock and grunge. 
 By 2023, Vincent began experimenting with the songwriting process:  designing rearrangeable structures around melodies and motifs, building off the love of prog rock and Chicago post rock.  Always Already was the first fully realized LP of Digital Phantoms, containing elements of jazz, post rock, prog rock, shoegaze, and pop.  
 Digital Phantoms also continues to work with other artists in the producing and co-writing chairs.  The Jessie Leider & Digital Phantoms EP was released in 2023, and includes beautiful singing b Jessie on a mix of acoustic post-rock and textures a la Stereolab.  Digital Phantoms also helped co-produce, mix, and play on JR Wicker’s Weird Magic.  
 The new War of Regrets EP is the convergence of the greatest strengths of the twin brothers—melody and structure— and the first release under Digital Phantoms with long-time collaborators Michael Hull, who is also part of the Tennessee based music collective, Beare.

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A purveyor of sounds, sentence stringer,  informed by the old as much as the new, the woods as much the office building, the playground as much as the television commercial.