Meanderthals, 'Desire Lines' (Smalltown Supersound)

Seasoned DJ drifters pull up a cabana chair.

After mucking about for more than a decade, spacey Norwegian producer Rune Lindbæk teams up with London disco pranksters the Idjut Boys to create this surprisingly focused debut, and the results are nothing less than total sun-soaked beatitude. Opener "Kunst Or Ars," all breezy guitars and afternoon delights, is their most overt ode to Balearic -- that laid-back, Ibiza-born, house-music answer to Jimmy Buffett. But as the trio folds in steel drums, bottomless dubs, stoner guitars, pianos, and thicker bass, they wander into more genreless terrain; the handclap propulsion of "Andromeda" and the darker "Lasaron Highway" evoke particularly sumptuous horizons.,

Comments

Got something to say?

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • No HTML tags allowed
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Use <!--pagebreak--> to create page breaks.

More information about formatting options

Are You Human?
If so, enter the four-letter code below to post your comment.
Image CAPTCHA