By 2016, his lush waveforms under the moniker Shy Layers (a nod to Adobe’s layered image editing) coalesced into a breezy debut, dished out by Hamburg’s picky boutique label Growing Bin Pitchfork later declared Shy Layers one of the best electronic albums of the year. But bit by bit, his eye for saturated color and pop art geometry turned to music, dialing lines and shapes into African guitar work, vibrant synths, and lyrics distilled unironically into vocoders. On the other side, fluorescent lights blink within a diamond design, like some slick logo for a new wave band.īack in New York, Walsh shot and edited video for various clients. A flimsy whirligig of paper and wood sits under the table on a stool.
Pastel mosaics adorn the right wall, and one rests on a square table like an unfinished jigsaw puzzle (all his wife’s work, he quickly points out). When you enter JD Walsh’s studio, a menagerie of colors stand out in the tiny room.
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