Sunsoaked.

This absolute gem has been lying around in my inbox for quite a while now (one month, to be exact), but instead of decaying, it just aged like a good Saint-Émilion Grand Cru - and aside from that, seriously, if you wanna be featured on this blog, words like these might help: "I love your descriptive write-ups for the bands you write, all of which I've never heard of before. I love that exposing new music-ness, instead of just blogging about what Pitchfork/Blogosphere deem popular." Ha! Ha!

Anyway, besides all that kind and gentle and of course totally disproportionate flattering, Gainesville, Florida's Hear Hums make some wonderfully startling music, following a path to experimental pop that is, notwithstanding all that constant raving about AnCo and the likes, truly unique and unconsumed. Sunsoaked, a tune from their upcoming album Psyche Cycles, hopefully due before the end of 2010, is an amazing piece of accessible psychedelia, with lots of different sounds floating around, seemingly erratically but at all times making perfect sense for the track's course, which will slowly extend and eventually elapse, making it the consummate metaphor for the universe we're constrained to live and struggle in.



Hear Hums - Sunsoaked