HYPE FILTER VOL. 8: SHARDS OF SUNLIGHT
by kevin diamond
Summer may or may not be here, depending on the day. I spent a 4th of July in the epic sunlight of a far away island, and it sure felt like summer. Today, gray clouds converge above a morose borough. Can we blame them? Summers contain endless joys and subtle pains: Freewheeling shards of sunshine, and crispy skin burnt by that sun’s same rays. A week ago I saw a rainbow. Last night a full moon. Mother nature has many faces and she shows them all to us.
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This week I’ve got a hype filter of tracks from the past month that have caught my ear and sent me into a summer fit. We begin our journey with Kurt Vile, who is on everyone’s lips this summer with his Violators touring New York and garnering great reviews. The same can be said for San Fransisco’s Girls, who kindly bring up the rear end of this week’s mix with their much blogged track Hellhole Ratrace. In between, we have the Wavves-like distorted garage anthems of Little Girls (Not to be confused with Girls, dum dum girls, Vivian Girls, or your girlfriend); the West-Coast reverb-heavy surf rock of New Zealand’s Surf City; the drum machine powered Open/House by City Center, covered in echoes and cobwebs and dust; Woods brings us into The Dark, with their trademark falsetto-pop psychedelica; Plus tunes by The Strange Boys, Glass Cake, Apollo Ghosts, and Jail. Enjoy.
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