Japan’s AMORPHOUS make some pretty rad and fun chill electronic pop music. Check their soundcloud for a bunch of great songs, meanwhile…
Wing Dam – Flesh (mp3)
Baltimore’s Wing Dam (Austin Tally) has crafted some beauty on “Flesh”, a rich track from the Waves To Shore EP (listen and download it on bandcamp). His soft vocal presence and his soft guitar float through the tides of eerie samples and a rich synthed out chorus while the lyrics weave in and out a sensual movement with the sea.
“curve of your jawline
bending and sending
your tide to me”
mp3: Wing Dam – Flesh
Also stay tuned for a new EP, Dogwood, in the near future.
Favorites: Sweet Lights – S/T
Lets just say this. Sweet Lights (Shai Halperin) and his S/T High-Line released album is nostalgia all over. Seriously. Playing this thing…I’m hearing McCartney, Floyd, etc, etc. It’s silly really…I almost took this as a bad thing. Then I was like…who am I kidding…these songs are great….beautiful…I’m singing along…waving along…submerged in the breakdown.
mp3: Sweet Lights – Message On The Wire
mp3: Sweet Lights – Ballad Of Kurt Vile #2
Players To Be Named Later
Newark’s Players To Be Named Later emerge from a cloud of distortion and noise armed with acoustic guitars drum machines and some pretty swell tunes. They’ve got a 6 track stunner on bandcamp that is steaming with lo-fi basement rock glory.
mp3: Players To Be Named Later – Basher’s Last Stand
deadCAT – weareinaCULT
Atlanta’s deadCAT released a 4 song trip last month on Young Latitudes entitled weareinaCULT. That title seems to hold true seing as much of the rhythms on this noise pop wonder are hypnotic and sometimes even a bit sinister. That being said the highlight from it is the dubbed out beauty of “Canadian Myst”. deadCAT’s tunes usually blend well with the dark solitude of winter city life, but this track pairs nicely with the wave of humidity about to drop hard around Bmore.
Favorites: Nomadic Firs – S/T
The more I’ve listened to Nomadic Firs‘ debut S/T LP (out now on Crash Symbols) the more I’m swept in…the more I’m in love with it. Ryan Boos has taken some folk like po like songs and blanketed them in beautiful electronic grime. He’s rehashed rock and roll and freewheeled it into cut up/sampled/delayed synth wonders. There’s even a beach time sunset sonnet dream (“Cover Bombs”) buried in sand and burned by the sun. What really takes me by storm is the true unexpected nature of the LP. There are moments where there’s a fairly concise pop song structure, but other times he just completely lets loose and rides a groove hard the whole song. And because of this…I get lost in this album.
mp3: Nomadic Firs – In The Morning
mp3: Nomadic Firs – Cover Bombs
Poor Spirits – Mellow
Poor Spirits is up to something again…this time in the form of Mellow, an upcoming release. The title track has him going back to the instrumentals, but roughing up the sound a bit. The drums are notably raw and I like it.
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Paul Henry North – “Matching Transparent”
Denton’s Paul Henry North of Sunnybrook fame has occasionally dropping some real lush instrumental gems on his soundcloud. A few days ago he let loose “Matching Transparent”, a slow building stream for stream diving. Check it: