Don’t Bother Wearing Seatbelts Features Azalia Snail

Don’t Bother Wearing Seatbelts – a podcast dedicated to the Elephant 6 cultural moment and its adjacent artists – recently had a special episode featuring Azalia Snail. “A true pioneer of the 1990s underground,” they write, “Azalia helped shape the sound of home recording, neo-psychedelia, experimental pop, and the DIY universe that so many artists continue to explore today. She is a songwriter, a multi-instrumentalist, a sonic explorer — and someone whose life story almost feels like the indie rock version of Forrest Gump. Somehow, someway, Azalia has crossed paths with everyone from Beck during the explosion of the lo-fi movement to the legendary Dick Van Dyke — collecting stories that sound too magical to be real.”

They continue, “In this episode, we talk about her incredible journey, the freedom of making art without rules, and her brand new album coming out on Cloud Recordings — a perfect home for an artist who has always lived in the clouds, creating her own universe one song at a time.” Check out the podcast here, and get her new album Gentle Mental going on your airwaves.