RecommNeds | Forever Pavot and Alex Calder
By Aaron Stein Feb 25, 2015 • 12:30 pm PST
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Forever Pavot: Rhapsode
This one came out late last year, but just popped onto my radar recently and it’s well worth a listen. The band is Forever Pavot, from France; the album is Rhapsode, with a sound from some time past’s swinging era of psychedelic-prog-swinging-baroque-whoknowswhat. The music is a bold mix of styles, stitching ’60s Beatles psych-pop, and soundtracks to non-existent Spaghetti Westerns and Bondesque spy thrillers with an admirable comfort and confidence. It’s trippy, sexy and a whole lot of fun.
Rdio: http://www.rdio.com/artist/Forev er_Pavot/album/Rhapsode/
Rhapsody: http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/forever-pavot/album/rhapsode
Spotify: Forever Pavot – Rhapsode
Alex Calder: Strange Dreams
The title of Alex Calder’s first full-length album is Strange Dreams and that just about sums up these 11 tracks. There is the “dreamy” of dream-pop with its gauzy, sleepy melodies and then there is the dreamy of Calder’s album, which is more like “wait, what’s happening here?” Calder is a former bandmate of Mac DeMarco, although his sound diverged somewhere down the road in a direction toward some fevered, weird and occasionally haunting places. This is hazy, druggy, fractured-melody kinda of stuff that might have you waking up wondering if any of it was real or not.
Rdio: http://www.rdio.com/artist/ Alex_Calder/album/Strange_Dreams_1/
Spotify: Alex Calder – Strange Dreams
Rhapsody: http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/alex-calder/album/strange-dreams
Written By: Aaron Stein
