Geneva-based L’Eclair released LP, Cloud Drifter, earlier this summer. To coincide with the release - the band teamed up with Aquarium Drunkard to do a Lagniappe Session. Here they reimagine some 1979 disco heat via Anita Ward’s “Ring My Bell,” embrace the street soul of Lisa Baron’s 1990 “Lovin N Affection,” and engage with something more recent in the form of Beach House’s now decade-old “Space Song.”
Off the heels of "Countryman '82" release, Allah-Las release a second instrumental from the Zuma 85 sessions. It's called "Dume Room" and it's available on all listening platforms.
Rarelyalways thrives on asserting himself in the lines that exist between genres. Born in London to a West African family, he excelled in music from a young age, absorbing gospel, R&B, and – especially – jazz in the process. Accepted into the BRIT School, he’d swap gigs depping on double bass in a jazz septet with heavy rock concerts, constantly challenging himself. As he grew as a songwriter, Rarelyalways came to stand for something defiant, a specific spirit within his chest.
After creating quite the buzz on his debut album in 2023, Rarelyalways returns with a new single "Paid," early 2000 UK Grime fused with horn lines inspired by John Coltrane as both lyricists go back-to-back
The kings of California cool, Allah-Las return with another laid back summer chiller that takes you on a journey from Malibu to Montego Bay incorporating sunshine sounds of dub, reggae, funk & jazz. From the archives of the Zuma ‘85 sessions, a small sampling of oddities and lost recordings left on the mixing room floor.
Cool Band Alert… “a veritable buffet of dancefloor-ready sounds, from bubbly disco rave-ups and gritty underground club bangers, to stretched out slow jams that ache with sincerity.” Bandcamp
“A delightfully deranged party girl whose bleepy vintage synths, sleazy chug and tireless disco keeps things weird in the right way” The Guardian
“Gelli Haha is ready for her close-up. The LA artist’s debut LP is for fans of weird and whimsical pop concoctions, offering 10 tracks that would feel at home in either a contemporary art exhibit or a discotheque.” The Boston Globe
“well worth your attention” KCRW
“… an album of such effervescence it is practically a geyser” The Quietus
Gelli Haha’s stellar debut album Switcheroo is here. A shapeshifter, a sonic acrobat, a performer with one foot in the cosmos and the other in arthouse theatrics, Gelli Haha (pronounced Jelly-Haha) is a space for pure creative chaos that exists somewhere between Studio 54 and Area 51. Gelli’s music thrives on duality: playful but profound, tongue-in-cheek but sincere. Switcheroo is the soundtrack to the Gelliverse, a sensory adventure sphere created by Gelli.
With a shared taste for off-kilter pop and vintage gear, producer Sean Guerin (of De Lux) joined Gelli in turning freshly-formed demos into a high-voltage experiment, abandoning meticulous structure for something freer and more electrifying. Every song on Switcheroo makes use of a myriad of recording toys; wacky analog effects, such as the Eventide Harmonizer, MXR Pitch Transposer, and various Electrix units, fashion an intentionally flawed and strictly silly texture throughout the album. Switcheroo is an exercise in letting go, an inside joke turned theatrical spectacle.