There are signs of promise here but it's often more style than substance. For one, just about every song has gimmicky volume knob turning on certain instruments/tracks, so it's like somebody's messing with the volume knob as you're trying to listen. Which I find distracting and annoying.
I love this sound. Very complex but not helter skelter like some. Exquisite music for listening anytime. I heard Toro y Moi will be touring with Phoenix soon.
First things first: There's no Shelly. Though they've only been making music together for a little more than a year, the Greek duo (producer RΠЯ and vocalist Sarah P.) are already sick of explaining the joke: They grew up in a neighborhood called Kypseli. In Athens. Get it? But Keep Shelly are used to feeling a little lost in translation: Their first two EPs, In Love With Dusk and Our Own Dream, were both cult… more »
When Seth Haley was a young kid, growing up in upstate New York and searching for a creative outlet, he hacked into the school computer system so, as he tells us, he "could see how far I could go." He might have continued with such dubious pursuits if not for a well-timed introduction to electronic duo Boards of Canada. A more informed friend sent him a copy of their sophomore album Geogaddi, the uninspired high school… more »
