Touching Ice

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Touching Ice is an Electro-Industrial Pop band formed in 2023. Starting as an experiment between friends, Davis Stewart and Dominic Colangelo traced the blurred edge of movement and disruption. But it wasn’t until Abigail Reese joined, adding poetry on like lyrics onto their tracks, that the Los Angeles band crystallized into something whole. At its core, textured guitar riffs and pounding drum machines create a powerful dissonance, while heartfelt, pop-inspired melodies pierce through the chaos—ultimately revealing beauty within the brutal. It’s a reminder that beneath even the harshest frequencies, there can still be something soft. Something worth holding onto.

Touching Ice draws from the fringes of rock—think The Cherry Point, Bordems, Dystopia, The Dead C, and Ground Zero—while its drum and synth textures nod to modern electronic pioneers like Daft Punk, Skrillex, Justice, Crystal Castles, Salem, Soulwax, etc. Here, pop becomes a language of access, disguising contradiction and a kind of ecstatic cacophony to create beauty in abrasion, asking how much structure a sound needs and how much dissonance a hook can carry before it breaks. Fascinated about the academics applied to noise and the philosophical stand it takes, their work carves out a space where listeners who grew up on pop might encounter a noise wall for the first time—not as punishment, but as texture and depth. Touching Ice writes music in a semi-fractured way—songs begin as scattered splinters: a tendril of a lyric, a guitar riff, a stray bassline, or synth demo, or an archived voice memo, and building it piece by piece with their executive producer, Levi Matulis. Choosing the volatility of a band, Abigail, Davis and Dom personify beauty and chaos with guitars, a chain of drone synths and a drum machine under vocals that alternate between raw and high pressured autotune.

Their 2023 debut, “Praise Kink,” traces the sharp edge of softness with delicate whispers of circuit-bent electronics and fading synths, and is followed by the 2024 release of their three-part series, Jersey City / 2k14 Soft Grunge.

Their debut album, I Just Remembered Everything Always Works Out for Me, released on November 14th via American Death Records. Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Touching Ice and Levi Matulis in various spaces across Los Angeles.