Swedish 5-piece The Amazing make some extremely unassuming music that sounds wildly out of step with 2018 and more like the kind of thing you’d hear in that weird hinterland between the end of Brit Pop and the emergence of all those bands who sounded like The Strokes.
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2018 Playlist: Royan – Frànçois & the Atlas Mountain
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.
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: 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: this is heaven and id die for it – American Pleasure Club, Teen Suicide
Woozy, distorted slacker-rock from American Pleasure Club and Teen Suicide on this is heaven and id die for it – and I apparently can’t get enough of that chord change in the bridge bit. You’ll know the one.
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: Lemon Glow – Beach House
Beach House are back! Or at least they were a few months ago when they released Lemon Glow – an ‘extremely Beach House song’ that opens with little de-tuned keyboard stab things that sound like they must have been pretty fun to make and then loads of sythny growls and strangled guitar bits. Real good.
2018 Playlist: Colorful – Hovvdy
Look, I don’t mind Hovvdy using two v’s for a w, but Colorful should be spelled with a u.
2018 Playlist: Two for C – Anenon
About 5 minutes of synth noodles and saxophone this one, so buckle in. I like it anyways.
