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: 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: 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: 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.
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.
