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We're sitting under parasols, sipping pina coladas, lounging by the pool as the Pacific ocean laps against the shore gently. We're tumbling out of bars with fizzy heads full of too many shots and memories that will soon age and tumble out of our heads. We're darting from beach bars to sunsets to meals that get out of hand before we leave, holding hands and looking for the next adventure.
The album Parasols will be out 21 September.
Baby I'm Off Drugs And I'm Ready To Marry You - Starfoxxx
Baby I'm Off Drugs And I'm Ready To Marry You is the new album from Starfoxxx and the latest release on Donky Pitch, whose recent releases have included albums from Lockah and The Range.
Starfoxxx is the solo project of David Beltran and here he treats us to a modest smeared collage of dreamy, ambient pop. Baby... is nowhere near as sugar coated nor as dancefloor orientated as its title and cover suggest. In fact on listening you'll question if that title is played for laughs at all - this is an album that spends a good two-thirds of its body on slow moving introspection.
Despite containing no real lyrics the album flows like a concept album built around a storied night out. Club Entrance (Intro) captures the excitement of a night's opening moments before Bad Reception and Bae HD deliver the warmth you associate with a club, albeit through a wonky, slowed down lens. The latter represents the album's most immediate moment, full of warm synths and rhythms that unfold amongst scattered vocal samples.
From here things become considerably more psychedelic, perhaps those drugs not being so distant after all. My Cats Will Die B4 Me is a brief, spacey interlude that feels distant if not exactly sad, punctuated with meows. XTC Makeouts has layers of squeaking melodies layered atop deep bass stabs and trebly rimshots, a dubstep deconstruction.
No Text No Call feels like a dance floor track heard through the ears of someone caught in a maudlin trap of their own making, those moments of fun when you suddenly fall to earth through the realisation you still haven't heard from the person you most want to. The track has is full of bouncy synth crashes and yet it feel beautifully reserved.
The track Outro closes Baby... in suitably cinematic form, full of as much mystery as you would expect from such an odd album. It is like the uncertainty of the final glimpses of The Graduate, or the dazed and confused scene that closes Larry Clark's movie Kids. This is a strange and disjointed album and yet I can't help but be charmed by it's wonderful curiousness.
Baby I'm Off Drugs And I'm Ready To Marry You is out on Monday through Donky Pitch. Check out Bae HD below.
Simple and effective. This sounds like an early DFA cut with a slightly more British slant.
Banks has her most pop moment yet on this new track lifted from her forthcoming album. Just give us the album already, dammit.
I've been a fan of Gonzales' beautiful solo piano work, production work for the likes of Feist (whatever happened to...?) and his more dance orientated work. Boys Noize are a bit less on my radar these days... Having been part of the French-led noisy distorted dance movement championed by Justice and Ed Rec, German producer Alexander Ridha feels like something very much of that era.
Together here as Octave Minds you get the sense both have something to gain - Gonzales has already benefited from a glossy sheen on Ivory Tower, a record produced by Ridha, and this represents a great opportunity for Ridha to move on to something a bit less, well, noisy and overtly masculine than Boys Noize.
This single precedes a full album, is available to download from Soundcloud for free and pretty much delivers to a standard as good as either artists has achieved on their own.