Maybe Nathan Williams was listening to some Blink 182 or Descendents when making his new record "King of the Beach". Post-Acid, released on Green Label Sound, is fucking poppy as fuck. But it's arguably the best song he's put out. It's a no-noise, no-bullshit song and it's the kind of songwriting you really couldn't appreciate when listening to his batshit no-fi songs from previous albums. A stripped-down Wavves song that cuts out all the tired and boring wall of sound... and shines light on the aspects of Wavves that were definitely hidden.
Wavves - Post Acid
Gold Panda - Back Home
I don't really know much about Gold Panda, besides them being responsible for a lot of remixes. But "Back Home" is pure un-adultered house music. Classic shit. On some dancefloor abandon-type shit. I just bought some of their singles and the Miyamae EP to get a full grasp of where this group is headed. They might be on the brink of something good and explode.
GOLD PANDA - Back Home from NO-FACE Films on Vimeo.
James Blake - CMYK
Some producers carry the dubstep label, and I never understand it. A song like CMYK isn't really dubstep. But it's considered dubstep. Why? It's more like an Aphex Twin song or something to come out of Warp. Either way, the label confusion should stray away from the fact that this song is balls-out funky and nostalgic. Not in the chillwave, lo-fi way. This song brought memories of childhood and my obsession with female R&B songstresses. I actually didn't even catch the Aaliyah sample, which James Blake did a good job of masking and altering into something completely ominous. My girlfriend was the one that caught it, and I couldn't wrap my head around it because it sounds nothing like the sample. Fuckin' awesome.
