Released last Monday on Alchemist Records, Atlantic At Pacific’s debut EP, Weddings, is some perfect listening for a sunny summer afternoon, if we ever have one again. It is no surprise to me that the group hail from Santa Cruz, a place I have never been but gather must be one sunny place to live. [...]
Beat Connection are a duo coming straight outta Seattle, Washington. They have just released their debut EP, Surf Noir, (available for free download from their Bandcamp) and are receiving a whole lotta love from the music press. Plowing a similar furrow as groups like Delorean and artists like Washed Out and Toro Y Moi, they [...]
Confession time. When I first thought of writing this post, I thought Elite Gymnastics were just a minor thing, a group that got lucky with one great track, that track being ‘Is This On Me?’ However, after having now listened to the rest of their output (helpfully all available for free download on their Tumblr), [...]
Chillwave does not exist. Or, if it does, the name doesn’t fit. Evidence – Washed Out. Coming out at almost exactly the same time last year as friend (and fellow graphic design-graduate, from the same college) Toro Y Moi, Washed Out (real name: Ernest Greene) has a very similar aesthetic. However, hip-hop is clearly a [...]
This post has been a long time coming. Since its release in January of this year, Toro Y Moi’s (translation: Bull and I) debut LP , Causers Of This, has slowly grown on me, easily becoming one of my favourite releases of the year so far. Coming a few months after his graduation from a [...]
01 The xx – Islands 02 Bok Bok – Ripe Banana 03 Lil Silva – Different (Kingdom Remix) 04 Untold – Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix) 05 Basement Jaxx – Scars (Sbtrkt Remix) 06 Blackdown – Concrete Streets (Zomby Remix) 07 Flying Lotus – Disco Balls 08 Washed Out – You’ll See It [...]