Stream: It All Comes Back To You - Remote Places

Remote Places is the solo project of producer and DJ Justin Geller, best known for his work within the group Pink Skull. That group moved through a number of house-influenced sounds before mutating into a live psych-krautrock outfit, the echoes of which can be heard here.

Debut EP Nights And Weekends was co-produced and recorded with Jeff Zeigler, known for his work with Was On Drugs and Kurt Vile... If It All Comes Back To You is anything to judge things by, the end result is a dreamy krautrock / shoegaze track full of swooping melodies, distortion and yearning.

Stream: Short Truth - Yumi Zouma

We are super close to New Zealand outfit Yumi Zouma's debut full length release Yoncalla, and it's a peach of a record - packed full of exactly the sort of soft-chords and harmonies we have come to expect. Back to tease us with another track, the band have recently unveiled another new track...

Short Truth is a lovely warm and upliftingly weightless track, those trademark muted guitars, warm keys vocal harmonies... Welcome to the sound of summer.

Premiere: Suddenly - Luka Sol

Following up on his previous singles Physical and Unknown, Suddenly is the new track from Luka Sol. Luka Sol is a solo artistic venture from LA-based musician Shawn Day. 

Suddenly is another upbeat piece of positive electronic pop, perfect for poolside or beach listening as the weather heats up. There is a propulsive sense of motion in the bassline and drums - like careering down cliff side roads in a convertible, the track feels gorgeous and exciting. 

Suddenly is out now. Check it out on Soundcloud below. 

EP Review: Feel Good feat. Scavenger Hunt - Satin Jackets

Feel Good opens Satin Jackets' recent debut album, Panorama Pacifico, and is itself a reimagining of the duo's early track You Make Me Feel Good. With vocals from Los Angeles four-piece Scavenger Hunt this retains much of the simple and achingly enthusiastic infatuation of the original but adds a layer of polish that has come with the years of additional experience Satin Jackets have built up.

Scavenger Hunt have attempted to bring more of a voice to the track, in their words the band attempted to capture the feeling of "jumping into a cool pool on a hot summer day - refreshing, exhilarating and sexy". The additional vocals act as a fairly natural extension of You Make Me Feel Good's sentiment, but as such it is a little difficult to argue that they add much... The original already had a somewhat restrained perfection and there is nothing wrong with this reimagining, it just feels a little unnecessary.

In this package come three remixes of the new track. Cavego adds some warm pads and a little more range, but otherwise keeps things very close to the original. The Keljet mix gives the track a slightly more disco feel, calypso rhythms adding some more colour.

Finally the In Limbo remix is blissfully horizontal - Balearic and a pure ode to lounging glistening by the poolside. It is here that those Scavenger Hunt vocals come into their own a bit more, the space opening them up and giving the emotion a little more room.

Feel Good is out is out on Eskimo Recordings on Friday - in the meantime check out the album Panorama Pacifico below.

Stream: Barricade (Matter Of Fact) - Yumi Zouma

Barricade (Matter Of Fact) got unveiled last week and it's another great track from Yumi Zouma in advance of their debut album Yoncalla.

Barricade started life as a collaborative jam session - a first for the band at the time. The end result is apparently a long way from those initial moments of lofi freeform collaboration, when band members Josh and Charlie sat in Charlie's apartment with an unplugged bass and guitar respectively, Christie humming out melodies. Whilst Barricade is much more polished than its origins would suggest, that collaborative approach enabled the band to be more collaborative and distil the best bits into the track you hear now. The result is stunning as always - I can't wait to get my ears around the album.