not chillwave

Memory Tapes' sprawling, heartfelt, beautifully flawed new LP Grace/Confusion is out today on Carpark, and while we continue to attempt to wrap our heads around the record's layered intricacies and thrilling/unexpected/emotional melodic turns, we're commemorating the occasion by handing the blog over to Memory Tapes mastermind Dayve Hawk for the day...

Here's a new one from DIANA, a new Toronto group which counts Destroyer's sax player Joseph Shabason as one of its members. We're not about to call this chillwave, but the gauzy, soft pop/disco-lite gem "Born Again" does elicit some Causers of This vibes, and also works nicely when alternated on repeat with that new Moons single that we can't seem to stop listening to...

Here's the b-side from one of the more promising debut singles to emerge in the first half of 2012, from Atlanta's Moons. Download the sprawling, weightless cosmic transmission "Waves at Night" -- which really takes off when the vocals kick in at around the midway point -- and check out the video for the equally devastating (if a bit new-wavier) title track below: mp3: The Bloody Mouth