Washington D.C. duo GEMS (Clifford John Usher and Lindsay Pitts) formed in 2012 and recently released a new single "Medusa." "Medusa" is the title track to their Medusa EP, out November 12. They currently are not signed to a label, which probably won't be the case for long.
“I’d done really well in school…but the reality was that I’d been pretty miserable for much of my life. School always just felt like such a prison to me. When I finally got to the point of contemplating suicide I stopped myself and said, ‘this is insane, I need to live my life differently.’ And so I imagined that in one reality, I had committed suicide. The self that I knew and that I’d spent my whole life creating was dead. And now this world I’m living in is an alternate reality where I have a second chance: my life from this point on is a bonus and so I can do whatever I want; I can be free to follow my heart and not be afraid. Of course this is easier said than done.” -The Line of Best Fit.
“I’d done really well in school…but the reality was that I’d been pretty miserable for much of my life. School always just felt like such a prison to me. When I finally got to the point of contemplating suicide I stopped myself and said, ‘this is insane, I need to live my life differently.’ And so I imagined that in one reality, I had committed suicide. The self that I knew and that I’d spent my whole life creating was dead. And now this world I’m living in is an alternate reality where I have a second chance: my life from this point on is a bonus and so I can do whatever I want; I can be free to follow my heart and not be afraid. Of course this is easier said than done.” -The Line of Best Fit.