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!
2018 Playlist: 5200 Maxo Kream
I might have mentioned before, but I suck at writing about hip hop, rap, trap etc. (“You suck at everything else too!” Yeah, fair cop…) Here’s Maxo Kream‘s 5200. It’s good, just don’t expect me to tell you for why.
2018 Playlist: Cool – Soccer Mommy
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.
