Spirit Spine is 19 year old Joseph Denney who lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he studies at Indiana U. We've fallen head over heels in love with 'Crashers (High And Low)'. Born in Greenwood, Indiana, Denney started making music at grade school using a tape recorder and karaoke machine. He would submit Weird Al Yankovic-style parodies to US radio legend Dr Demento and request them hundreds of times on the internet. “He sent me an email telling me it was annoying and that he wasn’t going to play my songs,” remembers Denney. He has become the buzz of US blogs and endorsed by those next dimensional bloggers over at 20JazzFunkGreats. We caught up with Joseph as he skipped class for a lie in and to research sprinkler systems (true fact).

WHAT'S…
...so what's going on with you today?
I skipped one of my classes to sleep in. In one of my classes I started wondering how sprinkler systems work so I looked into that. I re-listened to Arcade Fire's Funeral and The Very Best Of Harry Belafonte. It's been a pretty uneventful day (most of them are), but I still have an exam I have to study for tomorrow.

...your worst vice?
I absolutely love Pizza Rolls. I could eat hundreds and hundreds of them everyday and still love them.

…the story behind your name?
I was watching television really early in the morning a couple summers ago and it was the title of a documentary from the 1970s or so was on about people who had their spinal cords severed in various ways, but they still thought they could feel their legs and everything. It's kind of related to the phantom sensations that people who have had amputations sometimes experience.

...the world coming to?
Some really awesome music.

...your favourite website?
It's a tie between Wikipedia and Stumbleupon, although that second one doesn't technically have anything on it. But I love Stumbleupon because it does all of the work for me whenever I feel like I've seen everything there is to see on the internet.

...better, analog or digital?
Digital...by Joy Division.

...at the top of your shit list?
I don't have a shit list, but if I did it'd be anyone who seriously misuses their influence to say some really stupid and dangerous things. People who waste valuable opportunities.

...are you listening to now?
As I write this "Electricity" by The Avalanches is playing. But more in general? Grouper's last album. Beck's Mellow Gold. The new Caribou song "Odessa" is really good. Phantogram.

How would you describe your work?
Sleepy music that you can't fall asleep to. I always have a hard time describing it because I feel like if I say things like "electronic" or "experimental" people will get the wrong idea. But it's somewhere around ambient experimental electronic sample pop if that makes any sense. My girlfriend said my second album was really good to listen to when doing homework. Is homework music a genre yet?