Cool is absolutely impeccable growly, grungey pop that doesn’t so much fade out as de-tune out and I liked that a lot. Good job, Soccer Mommy.
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2018 Playlist: (Be) Toro Y Moi
Toro Y Moi‘s (Be) is some sparse-ass chill bedroom-pop that staunchly refuses to ever kick off, content instead to thrum and whirr and god damn it’s real nice, folks.
Playlist 2018: Middle America – Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Stephen Malkmus continues to sound about 23 years old on Middle America. For both Malkmus and Jicks alike, it seems it will always be 1994, there or thereabouts. Only difference is, if this were a Pavement song it’d have a sick video like Cut Your Hair or Stereo and not just a still image of Malkmus on a horse in a cool duster-type coat.
2018 Playlist: TTYL – Morabeza Tobacco
Full disclosure: found Morabeza Tobacco‘s TTYL on Pitchfork’s generally excellent ‘What’s Good‘ playlist and it’s probably not the last time I’ll pilfer from that. Sounds like an off-cut from the soundtrack to Drive. Hazy as all fuck.
2018 Playlist: Clover – Lionlimb
I bet Lionlimb‘s Stewart Bronaugh gets sick of people making the Elliott Smith comparison based solely on the vocal similarity. So how’s this: Clover has a bit in the middle that sounds like He Poos Clouds–era Final Fantasy / Owen Pallett.
I wonder what he’s up to. Loved Heartland, not so much In Conflict.
