After what I’m reliably informed was their ‘political’ album Solide Mirage, Royan feels like Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains returning to the spare, lonesome sound of Plaine Inondable. It is spooky and French.
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2018 Playlist: Seeyouin – O3ohn
I can find practically nothing about O3ohn aside from an Instagram account that’s mostly in Korean. I have been to South Korea and liked it.
2018 Playlist: Rose Petals – S. Carey
Distant echoey strumming and softly cooed vocals from guy who does that for a living, S. Carey.
2018 Playlist: You’ll Be Alright – Mellow Fellow, Teenage Granny
You’ll Be Alright by Mellow Fellow and Teenage Granny is a fun old time if you like fidgety bedroom pop. Which clearly I do.
2018 Playlist: Sure – Hatchie (Robin Guthrie Remix)
The Robin Guthrie remix of Hatchie‘s Sure is one of those things that does exactly what you’d expect / want it to do, that being make an already pretty Cocteau Twins song sound more like the Cocteau Twins.
2018 Playlist: You’re My – Indoor Voices
Indoor Voices is such a great name for a band and You’re My is sounds like it could have been plucked off My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything, so it has that going for it.
2018 Playlist: Confirmation – Westerman
I’m willing to stake my reputation on my prediction that the fretless bass is back, baby. Westerman‘ll back me up. Confirmation is positively dripping with it, segueing into a middle bit that sounds like the soundtrack to Labyrinth. No not Pan’s Labyrinth… the real Labyrinth. Oh shit!
