Artist's albums
Taming Horses at Night
2022 · single
Ice from Two Planets
2022 · single
Tornado Mass for Voice & Synthesizer
2020 · album
Burial of the Dead
2020 · single
Coming to the Nuisance
2020 · single
Obelisk
2020 · single
Doom
2019 · single
Creation of the World
2019 · single
Gardener in Rain
2019 · single
Canticle 69
2019 · single
Suite for Voice and Ukulele
2018 · EP
Areopagitica
2017 · single
Rumspringa
2017 · EP
The Ascension of Slow Dakota
2016 · album
I Am Held Together
2016 · single
I Saw Christ Crying in Hermès
2015 · single
The Lilac Bush
2015 · single
The Junior EP (Remastered)
2015 · EP
Bürstner and the Baby
2013 · album
Our Indian Boy
2012 · album
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Biography
Slow Dakota's music is known for blending baroque pop, folk, classical, post-rock, and electronica. He often employs "spoken word" interludes, and his lyrics fixate on myth, rural folklore, and fairy tale. In 2016, Slow Dakota (born PJ Sauerteig) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Raised in Indiana, Sauerteig began releasing music as Slow Dakota from his Columbia University dorm room in 2012. As an undergraduate, Sauerteig pursued Creative Writing and Psychology, and quietly released Our Indian Boy (2012), Bürstner and the Baby (2013), and The Junior EP (Remastered) (2015). While at Columbia, Sauerteig also founded a small record label, Massif Records, to release his own music, and the music of close friends: including Roman Jinn, Margaux, and Mira Belle, Sauerteig first gained recognition with his cerebral 2016 LP, The Ascension of Slow Dakota - a 19-song blend of folk, rock, spoken word monologues, and classical music. Shortly after, Sauerteig matriculated to NYU School of Law, where he released a pair of EP's (Rumspringa and Suite for Voice and Ukulele), and a handful of standalone singles (including the poppy Gardener in Rain and trauma-filled Doom). During the COVID quarantine of 2020, Sauerteig released his fourth LP, "Tornado Mass for Voice & Synthesizer". As a musician, Sauerteig is extremely reclusive; he has never toured, and has only ever played a handful of live shows.