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Critiques CD: Seapony | Go With Me

Seattle-based Seapony is another band plucked from obscurity thanks to Bandcamp. Four hazy surf-guitar-girl-pop singles released for free on the website became the foundation for Go With Me, an enjoyable yet uncomplicated collection of dreamy songs featuring passive girlish vocals, buzzing and echoing guitars and unemphasized rhythms. The album’s opener, “Dreaming,” designates the sound and mood for the rest of the twelve tracks in both name and aesthetic: between the vintage-sounding guitars and charming yet distant vocals, Go With Me plays out like a lovesick girl’s dream: fluid yet predictable, but enchanting all the same.

 

Critiques CD: Secret Cinema | Minerals

Whether you know the guy as Secret Cinema, Meng Syndicate or Grooveyard, Dutch producer Jeroen Verheij has been an electronic music fixture for some 20-odd years. This new double disc finds him dabbling in both throbbing techno and slow-burning ambience – though not the kind you’d exactly describe as ‘soothing.’ First, the dancefloor fodder: CD 1 provides a solid tech-house assault where moody basslines meet relentless percussive hits, with piercing melodies underscoring the magic. Verheij takes a stroll through zen gardens on CD 2, a collaboration with Mental Youth that features a pretty unsettling roster of ambient tracks that could have easily scored Memento or Donnie Darko.

 

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