Seven Lions

Seven Lions embraces the dance floor and also moves beyond it. His 2015 EP, The Throes ofWinter [Casablanca Records], yields four songs rife with big room moments and expansivesoundscapes. Instead of following industry trends and just releasing single after single, the artist and producer—also known as Jeff Montalvo—has built a vision that encompasses a series of EPs as a larger body of work. The Throes of Winter is his first EP of 2015 with a summer EP to follow.In between tour dates, Seven Lions recorded the new music. As he composed tracks, the vision crystallized."I wanted to start making the music more thematic, interesting, and part of something larger," he explains."Since artists aren't releasing proper albums anymore, it makes sense to create something that's digitallyartistic with real cohesion as opposed