Mapache - Swinging StarsIn the past, Mapache recording sessions have been pretty laid back affairs, with friends coming and going, the sessions starting and stopping at the band's discretion as relaxed a process as the immaculately sunny vibes that their four albums would suggest. But on their dynamic and ambitious fifth album of cosmic folk, Swinging Stars, Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch decided to take a trip and hunker down somewhere particularly special. "It's a pretty

The dynamics

Recording started with the late Eric Littmann

Ge´nisson plays period clarinets

Such was the reality that shaped Michal Bergson

Venus In Fur (2013)

reveal a voice that is well schooled in the classic material presented

Larry Eanet - Piano Solos 2

grove and fusion with lots of starts

Chain Tripping is YACHT's seventh album and third with DFA Records - the ten-song collection marks a shift in the group's relationship with technology

Prior to the age of mechanical reproduction

And so lines about sniffing glue and melting into the couch become reality-bending evocations of normal lockdown anxieties

swapping partners and exploring unconventional sexual relationships