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After a tantalizing little preview a few weeks back, mysterious tropical chillwave group Domenique Dumont -- now revealed to be Latvian duo Arturs Liepins + Anete Stuce, with the help of "an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied" -- share the opening and closing tracks from their long-awaited new LP Miniatures De Auto Rhythm, coming October 1st on Paris l

Album teasers are bad and we typically don't like to encourage them, but as huge fans of the first Domenique Dumont record from a few years ago, we are unreasonably psyched about this one. Miniatures De Autorhythm is coming in September on Antinote, check the very promising 8+ minute teaser below:

From the Paris label that brought us Domenique Dumont's enchanting Comme Ça EP earlier this year comes more hypnotically aquatic vibes — the label says "it seems that the whole album has been recorded in some secret cave under the sea", so let's go with that — from Parisian synth-pop duo Syracuse...

This one was a last-minute entry on our records of the year (SO FAR) list, from a mysterious artist named Domenique Dumont. Even Domenique's own label, the Paris-based Antinote Recordings, claims to know nothing about the artist (please), but he/she has created a blissful, dreamily aquatic world via an elegant collision of dub, tropicalia, chillwave, ye-ye, bossa nova, techno, balearic, and every