Puro Instinct / Headbangers in Ecstasy / 2011

Wish this was the poster the pre-orders came with.

Summer's only over a month away...

Craft Spells / Idle Labor / 2011

"Craft Spells make ifantastic bedroom pop that is one part 80's New Romantic and another part Dream Pop. People enamored with Glo-Fi/Chillwave should also take not because their production and use of synths will be right up your alley if not entirely hanging ten on top of the Chillwave. "The Fog Rose High" wouldn't be out of place in an 80's John Cusack movie, you know in that scene where he and the girl finally "fall in love." Or "Azalea" which channels a fantastic Stephin Merritt (sans the baritone) at the beach in a most pleasant way. Really, really great stuff."- Mishkanyc.com


Key tracks: ALL OF THEM

Dreams / Forgotten Thoughts / 2011

To go along with Kris' post on Washed Out, here is an EP by DREAMS. "Forgtten Thoughts" has elements of a "chillwave" groove with a balance of synth-pop. Headphones are recommended. 

HIGHly recommended

Washed Out / Life of Leisure / 2009

Do your Sasquatch research.

Washed Out submerges a sense of intense feeling within its 80s-fantasy electronic ether. Greene's "copy of a copy" distance, then, comes across as a form of emotional repression. The yearning-in-utero effect is strongest on woozy centerpiece "Feel It All Around". With blurry singing, cheap-sounding synths, and a humid, syrupy flow, the track suggests an 80s synth pop hit that won't come straight out and cop to itself-- or a young man in love, too tongue-tied (or too stoned?) to admit it. "You feel it all around yourself," Greene echoes. As for what "it" is, the song never says.
You'll see it.