{"id":2519,"date":"2014-11-09T22:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2014-11-19T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:04:31","slug":"les-sins-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/les-sins-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Sins <br>Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Les_Sins-Michael.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2520\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Les_Sins-Michael.jpg\" alt=\"Les Sins, Michael\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Les_Sins-Michael.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Les_Sins-Michael-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>While it was may have been Washed Out&#8217;s \u201cFeel It All Around\u201d\u2014popularized by <i>Portlandia<\/i> and thus becoming the indie kid soundscape of urbania\u2014that instigated ridiculous genre names like chillwave, it was Toro y Moi\u2019s 2010 record, <i>Causers of This<\/i>, that truly solidified the style as something with which to be reckoned. Chaz Bundick, the South Carolinian behind Toro y Moi, in less than a half-decade, has continuously expanded upon the vagueness of the genre, and as such, it&#8217;s hard to depict chillwave more precisely than a space inhabited by R&amp;B-inflected headiness and a sort of fuzzed-synth nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes Les Sins, Bundick\u2019s dabbling in house music, a genre with longstanding precedence. Besides the double-sided single \u201cLina\u201d that arrived the same year as his Toro y Moi debut, <i>Michael<\/i> (Company Records) is our first full-length documentation of Bundick trying out straight-up dance music, and <i>Michael<\/i> grooves about as hard as you\u2019d expect of a Toro y Moi dance record.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s crucial to note that <i>Michael<\/i> is an album by a dude who contributes to arguably one of the most subdued, albeit fresh, styles of the 2010s, and <i>Michael<\/i> reads as such. Tracks like \u201cWhy\u201d (featuring singer Nate Salman), the back third of \u201cBother,\u201d and \u201cSticky\u201d showcase Bundick&#8217;s age-old idiosyncrasies of ringing retro wobbly synth tones\u2014all with heavy-handed hints of classic R&amp;B and \u201970s jazz-funk. Elsewhere, a chillwave atmosphere is pervasive on \u201cTalk About\u201d and \u201cDo Right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in those influences and atmosphere that makes one wonder if <i>Michael<\/i> could have (or should have) been executed in the Toro y Moi lens. Bundick applies a similar background to Les Sins as he does his other project, even if he is reducing the use of his own voice and his otherwise singer-songwriter approach. It\u2019s in that respect that it feels like Bundick is stifling himself slightly in order to produce Les Sins and at best has made something that parallels the electronic-folk of something like Mount Kimbie\u2019s <i>Cold Spring Fault Less Youth<\/i>. Les Sins&#8217; songs here are sometimes dance music, as noteworthy tracks \u201cPast\u201d and \u201cDrop\u201d prove, but those songs only observe a dance quality by being upbeat. <i>Michael<\/i> exists as a batch of house songs, however, like the best of Bundick\u2019s music they might be appreciated more in-house, head-bobbed to by the pot-addled soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it was may have been Washed Out&#8217;s \u201cFeel It All Around\u201d\u2014popularized by <i>Portlandia<\/i> and thus becoming the indie kid soundscape of urbania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,981,980,341],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-company-records","tag-les-sins","tag-toro-y-moi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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