You will remember us. Will we remember you?
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Iain Mew: You look at the lyric by itself — “my heart will still be tethered”, “A distant planet is pulling me away from you” — and it sounds like a recipe for emo excess. Sweetly whispered against this summer breeze of a track, it turns into a delicate sigh of acceptance, even before the vocals get chopped into so many petals drifting through the air.
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Brad Shoup: First off: love the artist names. I’m pretty sure these guys were suspects in an episode of Law & Order: SVU. “Waves” trumps this on timbre — the singer’s a twerp in the way haters imagine Chris Martin to be, based on fragmentary remembrance of his ballads. It also wins on guitar attack: “Pluto”‘s bleached highlife guitar just fidgets and twitches in the middle of the room.
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Madeleine Lee: The aural equivalent of wearing a turtleneck on the beach.
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Thomas Inskeep: Based on the name “DJ Clock,” I was honestly anticipating-slash-fearing some Teutonic bosh-bosh-bosh EDM-pop. What a pleasure to realize it’s actually the kind of Balearic gem I didn’t think anyone still made, and from South Africa no less. This would slot in so nicely between the Arthur Baker remix of Fleetwood Mac’s “Big Love” and Chris Rea’s “Josephine” — as this comes off as nothing so much as Double 2014, with its jazz guitar lick and gently shuffling beat. Unquestionably my favorite out-of-nowhere discovery of the year thus far.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine: So breezy it nearly floats away on the wind, the lightness is the appeal of “Pluto (Remember You).” Neither the hook nor the delivery is insistent, so it’s not something digs in; it insinuates and never insists. It’s so sweet, I enjoy it every time I hear it but I’ll be damned if I remember it an hour later.
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Juana Giaimo: Such a delicate vocal melody like this one is always pleasent, but all the details around it — the playful guitar, the subtly rhythmic beats, the vocal samples — work as layers put perfectly together, combining the warmness of a room with the loneliness of the moon.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: A meeting of minds, bringing together skipping kwaito rhythms and floaty mid-noughties blog-indie: earnest and swaying, pretty winning (emphasis on the “pretty”).
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Mallory O’Donnell: “I will remember youuuuuuuuuuu,” the singer croons, but you’ve already forgotten him, his song, and the double latte you drank while it was on.
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Megan Harrington: Putting aside that this sounds vaguely like anything from Toro y Moi to Delorean to most things released on Paw Tracks, it’s easy to see how it’s found such a broad audience. “Pluto” is neither a happy-in-love nor a sad-without-you song. Anyone could dance to it or anyone could let it bounce around in their headphones while they sat still and finished their homework. It’s light, mildly refreshing, and wildly palatable. Basically, it’s club soda with a lime wedge.
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