Can't wait! I'm beyond excited that Cate Le Bon is producing (last year's Pompeii is so damn good) and we're getting a little bit of a changeup. I think The Whole Love is great and Star Wars was fun, but ready to move on from Tom Schick at the boards and try something new. Case in point, thought the Cruel Country songs were much more vibrant when I saw them last summer compared to what we heard on the album.
Ha, you were one of the first people I thought of when I read the news - new song rips too!
Good rec on Steve Marino. Never heard of him but it's right up my alley and definitely going to dive into the rest. Digging the droning of Water Damage, and I didn't know Longings has a new one out. I gotta get on it!
I’ve been listening to your playlist this past week and am digging all of it, but especially Mitch Murder, Drop Nineteens and George Clanton. I had read about vaporwave but still have no real idea what it is, even after learning that GC is considered the posterboy for it. I think of vapor as something that quickly evaporates, and it doesn’t do that for me, so I’m probably way off!
Drop Nineteens (at least this song) captures perfectly the dream pop sound. I think my BP dropped 10 points after playing that song. And MM’s Yacht-rocky instrumentals dropped my BP 20 more points.
It's hard to pin down what exactly vaporwave is, as it's matured so much over the past decade (as you hear with this new George Clanton record). I'm just happy it's been a gateway to a lot of city pop stuff that I most certainly didn't know about before all of the samples that the genre was based on. If you've never heard Dan Mason's 'Miami Virtual' from 2017, I highly recommend it. His newer stuff with vocals doesn't always do it for me, but that along with anything from FM Skyline and 2814's second record, which is a more ambient take on the genre, are some of my all-time favorites.
And so happy about Mitch Murder as well. Definitely give 'Then Again' a listen if you haven't heard it. Think it's a perfect blend of instrumental city pop and his synthwave past. Thanks for listening!
New Wilco coming this Fall!
Can't wait! I'm beyond excited that Cate Le Bon is producing (last year's Pompeii is so damn good) and we're getting a little bit of a changeup. I think The Whole Love is great and Star Wars was fun, but ready to move on from Tom Schick at the boards and try something new. Case in point, thought the Cruel Country songs were much more vibrant when I saw them last summer compared to what we heard on the album.
I have never seen them but I am hoping/thinking it's finally going to happen this coming October.
Definitely get on that!
I’m absolutely cannot believed there’s gonna be another Drop Nineteens record, and I absolutely cannot believe how stoked I am for that to happen.
This week, I’ve been listening to new records Steve Marino, Water Damage, and Longings. All very different, all rip.
Ha, you were one of the first people I thought of when I read the news - new song rips too!
Good rec on Steve Marino. Never heard of him but it's right up my alley and definitely going to dive into the rest. Digging the droning of Water Damage, and I didn't know Longings has a new one out. I gotta get on it!
Update: I have pre-ordered the record and listened to the new single approx. 176x in the last day or so. I am nothing if not utterly predictable. Lol.
I’ve been listening to your playlist this past week and am digging all of it, but especially Mitch Murder, Drop Nineteens and George Clanton. I had read about vaporwave but still have no real idea what it is, even after learning that GC is considered the posterboy for it. I think of vapor as something that quickly evaporates, and it doesn’t do that for me, so I’m probably way off!
Drop Nineteens (at least this song) captures perfectly the dream pop sound. I think my BP dropped 10 points after playing that song. And MM’s Yacht-rocky instrumentals dropped my BP 20 more points.
It's hard to pin down what exactly vaporwave is, as it's matured so much over the past decade (as you hear with this new George Clanton record). I'm just happy it's been a gateway to a lot of city pop stuff that I most certainly didn't know about before all of the samples that the genre was based on. If you've never heard Dan Mason's 'Miami Virtual' from 2017, I highly recommend it. His newer stuff with vocals doesn't always do it for me, but that along with anything from FM Skyline and 2814's second record, which is a more ambient take on the genre, are some of my all-time favorites.
And so happy about Mitch Murder as well. Definitely give 'Then Again' a listen if you haven't heard it. Think it's a perfect blend of instrumental city pop and his synthwave past. Thanks for listening!