Galen Tipton, also known as Recovery Girl, is an American musician.galen tipton uses her music to craft miniature universes of sound - Alternative Press She is the founder of the Community Garden record label. Her sound has been described as an experimental electronica fusion of ASMR sounds, IDM and the hyperreality focus of hyperpop. Her music has gone viral on the TikTok platform.MusicRadar: How improvised MPE, misused plugins and AI speech software made Galen Tipton's mind-boggling brain scratch: "A lot of my work is made by experimenting and learning something new" | MusicRadar, accessdate: July 2, 2023
Life and work Tipton grew up in a small farm town, where she was "one of the weird kids" who spent a lot of time immersed in the world of fiction novels and video games.galen tipton Navigates America's Turbulent Times as recovery girl: galen tipton Navigates America's Turbulent Times as recovery girl , accessdate: June 1, 2023 She considers this an influence on her music, which she has branded in the realm of fantasy and science fiction.
She was first inspired to make music playing Guitar Hero 2 as a child.Our Culture: Artist Spotlight: recovery girl - Our Culture, accessdate: June 2, 2023
According to Tipton she started the recovery girl project as a method of self therapy for working through her trauma. She chose the name "Recovery Girl" after the My Hero Academia character of the same name because she identified with her healing powers. Galen Tipton is a transgender woman and was encouraged by a trend of dissonant, pitch shifted vocals in hyperpop to express herself without vocal dysphoria under the "recovery girl" name.
Tipton is part of a duo called "Digifae" together with singer/producer Diana Starshine.
Sound Tipton's music has been described as "hyperactive and intentionally overstimulating digital orchestral soundscapes".Wexner Center for the Arts: Otherworld Performance Lab: galen tipton | Wexner Center for the Arts , accessdate: June 1, 2023 Sam Goldner of Pitchfork described her music as "...largely improvised chords and melodies acting secondarily to the constant rush of squelching synthesis underneath. A hypercute take on avant-garde synth music".Pitchfork: Galen Tipton: brain scratch Album Review | Pitchfork , accessdate: June 1, 2023 Her music has been praised by figures like Iggy Pop and David Byrne.Splice: 8 transgender music producers who are making waves with their sounds in 2023 - Blog | Splice , accessdate: June 1, 2023
Tipton said in an interview that she intended to make accessible experimental electronic music that didn't take itself seriously to invite people to explore stranger forms of music, partly in reaction to the more self serious inaccessible experimental music she was interested in at the start of her career, .
Influences Tipton has cited SOPHIE as an influence for her sound design, textural elements, experimentation and "Her whole public coming out, and all of the songs related to her trans-ness and identity gave me so much life, as a non-binary, trans girl producer".Mixmag: Post-PC Music: How the London label inspired a new stage in the pop continuum - Scene reports - Mixmag, accessdate: June 3, 2023 She has also cited the formlessness of early Arca music and her interest in nature aesthetics and folklore, ASMR and field recordings. Other influences include minimalist composer Steve Reich, 100 gecs, Machine Girl, Street Sects, Deli Girls, and Giant Claw.
She has cited the Japanese footwork music scene as an influence, stating that "I don't consider my music footwork, by any stretch, but I feel a strong creative kinship with the Japanese experimental scene that dabbles in footwork. To me, the music these artists make sounds like pure freedom and play, and that's the space I like to create from—one of unrestricted expression and emotion."The Guardian: Bradford bassline and ketamine-charged punk – 50 new artists for 2020 | Music | The Guardian, accessdate: June 3, 2023
Discography
As Galen Tipton
Year TitleLabelNotesRef2016Spell Books O1 ::: Ideonella SakaiensisThem There Records2017treats 2!Tiny Mix Tapes: galen tipton - "ਭ३౽=͟͟͞͞(((ഽ'8')ഽ lurch ਭ३౽=͟͟͞͞(((ഽ'8')ഽ" | LISTEN | Chocolate Grinder | Tiny Mix Tapes, accessdate: June 3, 20232018QUEER FLESHpostgeographyTiny Mix Tapes: GALEN TIPTON - QUEER FLESH | LISTEN | Chocolate Grinder | Tiny Mix Tapes, accessdate: June 3, 20232018NightbathDESKPOP2019fake meatOrange MilkGalen Tipton - fake meat - Tiny Mix Tapes The Pulse » Chattanooga's Weekly Alternative: New Music From FITTED, galen tipton - The Pulse » Chattanooga's Weekly Alternative , accessdate: June 1, 20232020UngoliantOrange Milk2020GoddexOrange MilkPAPER Magazine: Galen Tipton on the Trans Deity at the Center of 'Goddexx' - PAPER Magazine, accessdate: June 3, 20232020carepackage2021You RightUpclose Records2022Nymph Tones2022cycles2022phone mouth music2023brain scratch2023scarepackage2024You Like MusicGhost Diamondwith Keith Rankin (as Death's Dynamic Shroud)2024keepsakeFMOrange Milkwith Holly Waxwing2024clean dreams2025dewCLAWSOrange Milkwith Shmu2025the Death of MusicOrange Milk2026Mobile Suit Gym RatGhost Diamondwith Keith Rankin (as Death's Dynamic Shroud)
As recovery girl
Year TitleLabelNotesRef2020recovery girl2021recovery girl & friends (mixtape)2021Nausea Pop, Vol. 12022Grit Ur Teeth (mixtape)with Atlas Moe2022Nausea Pop, Vol. 22022Nausea Pop, Vol. 32024Night of FireOrange Milkas part of ---__--____ with Seth Graham and More Eazehttps://moreeaze.bandcamp.com/album/night-of-fire?label=2117584517&tab=music
As Digifae
Year TitleLabelRef2022digifae
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