New Jersey born, Queens based artist Car Culture, the alias of Daniel Fisher (also known as Physical Therapy), announces the extended version of his 2025 album Rest Here, which arrived via cult-favorite Montreal label NAFF Recordings. Alongside the announcement, Fisher shares the Physical Therapy remix of “Doesn’t Really Matter” featuring Squirrel Flower.
Following the release of his sophomore album, Rest Here, Car Culture returns with an extended version of the album for CD, streaming, and a limited edition marble vinyl repress. After immediately receiving much critical acclaim and selling out in all physical formats, NAFF and Fisher teamed up to re-release the album with new remixes, demo versions, and tracks previously only available on the earlier Nothingburger EP.
Fisher steps up under his other alias to provide a dancefloor version of the album single “Doesn’t Really Matter,” honing in on the tracks earworm melodies and fortifying its breakbeats. Also included are demo versions of some of the album tracks to provide a window into the early stages of the Fisher’s writing process.
Exemplifying Fisher’s wide ranging approach to production, Rest Here plays like a well-worn mixtape: ranging from fuzzy dream pop to hypnotic downtempo. The album represents an evolution for Fisher, known for his long and winding discography of dance music releases; while earlier works often touched on the emotive and melodic, Rest Here moves firmly into songwriting territory, with the addition of live instrumentation and a focus on vocals. Fisher has always approached his projects with a talent for world-building and on Rest Here, he constructs something tender and captivating.
Constructed over the course of 3 years between New York and Montreal alongside a cast of collaborators – mainly long-time friend Patrick Holland – layers of guitars, drums and samples come together to build a heartsick wall of sound. These emotionally and sonically dense songs inhabit a familiar place for Fisher, somewhere between brain-rotted cognitive dissonance and tear jerking sentimentality. Warm psychedelic shoe-wave primed for emotional projection. Rest Here features Fisher’s own vocals as well as Chicago’s Squirrel Flower and London’s Ms Ray. The project also includes contributions from NAFF label co-founder Priori, and New York’s J. Albert. The album was mixed by Patrick Holland and mastered by Matt Colton and Patrick Holland. Cover Photo by Ganem Haiek with artwork and design by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier.
Over the course of the last 15 years, Fisher has had a prolific, zig-zagging career, releasing genre-agnostic music under a number of aliases, often on his own Allergy Season label. From his first EP on the ground breaking label Hippos In Tanks, Fisher has continually created surprising, playful electronic music. Through his DJ sets around the globe and his long running NTS Radio show, Fisher manages to weave these many threads together.
As Car Culture, Fisher brings focus to his sentimental side. In the fan-favorite Remissions mix series, he collages fuzzy folktronica, found sounds and unexpected edits into foot-gazing narratives. His productions as Car Culture are sometimes serene, sometimes heart wrenching. Zoom out and you hear tranquilizing electronica, zoom in and you find soulful songwriting. Fisher released his first LP as Car Culture, Dead Rock, in 2021, referred to by Resident Advisor as “[one of] the great ambient records to emerge from the Brooklyn-Queens techno scene.”
Over the last year, Fisher began performing his first live sets as Car Culture, playing bass, and mixing his own singing and spoken word with samples. The band also features Taryn Blake Miller on guitar and background vocals. Performing across the US, Europe & UK, they bring the surreal analog and digital sounds from Car Culture’s albums into the real.
