Like a distant cousin to the circular window previously opened for UK’s Birkwin Jersey, “Orinoco” revels in beat symmetry, sputtering from forest to full kaleidoscoped cycle.
It belongs to a seven track EP called Old Hands arriving January 13th via Absent Fever. This post is in balance with Decoder, the freshly reconceptualized GOTC, and cultural magazine—learn more (and pledge support for its debut issue) at Kickstarter.
This one first took to the A.M. over a year ago, and it’s circling back again (after all, it is infinite), in upgraded form, to skywrite an announcement: Under Sleeping Waves 12/25.
Happy Particles | Infinite Jet
Glasgow’s Happy Particles have decided to self-release their record on Christmas Day. And if there’s a single flight that can speak for the rest, it’s probably Jet, with those orchestrated highs and lows, charging through 2/3rds before dropping down to half speed on the final stretch—a soft-burnt trail left in its wake, right where the strings of “Slowness” take over. Previously channeled “Come Home All Dead Ones” arranges a similar bed for “Empty Circle”, and so on. Ten pieces total, each in perfect distance from the next, and available December 25th at the HP camp.
Yalls is back with that stained glass focus, headed down deep to light up the dark end with an air pocket full of surprises. Half him, half hiccups from another time, this stuttering number alternates between two demands: sink or dance, and really we’re left doing some head-bobbing variation of both.
The track is one of twelve to appear on Together, a Cultus Vibes compilation which drops tomorrow. Stop by Jimmy’s and Timmy’s for two more before release (and Fadar has a cut from the vibes man himself, Mr. Daze).
This particular fantasy island is only reachable by one avenue—as that contradiction might suggest, this is no traditional paved route. It’s more of a kaleidoscope current, appearing in surreal flashes, overheard or underwater, wherever the parade wants to go. Everything there is backwards, which might explain why something that “hurts so bad” would sound so sweet.
Anxious for another SOS from this duo’s soundcloud.