Syncopated electronic beats painted on an indie rock canvas. IDM lovers get your fill! Rock/RPM/Urban Crossover, but the impetus definitely springs from the electronics dept.
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Baths is Will Wiesenfeld. With high-pitched vocals almost in the vein of Passion Pit, alongside slow, hypnotic electronic breaks, ‘Cerulean’ may just be your new late-night friend.
Wiesenfeld splices his own musical samples as he plays guitar, bass, and viola. He also makes some seemingly mundane sounds into beautiful samples, most notably the clicking pen sample in the first track, “Apologetic Shoulder Blades”.
Though some of the slower jams miss the mark, Baths debut on the Anticon label is definitely no mistake.
RIYL Four Tet, Prefuse 73, Toro Y Moi
Lovely: 1*, 3*, 4, 5*, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11*
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