Also from Mexico, an indie-pop dude, and yes, the score predicts itself…
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Patrick St. Michel: Ultra hammock music, down to lyrics about relaxing and not wanting to go back. Way to chill, my friend.
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Sabina Tang: The epitome of Sunday morning Songza Concierge (“coffee shop playlist,” if you will). Pleasantly insubstantial in context, but doesn’t reward focused attention.
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David Lee: Sounds like the kind of trailing thought that unravels after many bong hits, which I might be able to embrace if it weren’t predicated on nostalgia for the blandest of ’50s musical tropes. Slowing down a Lana Del Rey song to its bleariest extremes and swapping out the lyrics for @chillsitch tweets would be more interesting.
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Ashley Ellerson: Caloncho brings chill beach vibes that’ll transport you to the Pacific Ocean in no time. We all want to pass time on the beach and never return to real life, and Caloncho captures that feeling.
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Brad Shoup: It’s a temperate 75 in purgatory’s malt shop.
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Megan Harrington: This is a sweet little piece of candy that melts the second it hits your tongue. That split second of pleasure is all you get, each subsequent attempt to replicate it showing diminishing returns until you’re sick with stomachache.
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Iain Mew: Unstrained Melody.
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Alfred Soto: Of all things this brought to mind Arto Lindsay’s covers, and it’s sung with his delicacy of feeling. The smoke(y) gets in their eyes.
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Josh Winters: There’s something about songs in 6/8 time that have always felt so timelessly romantic to me. Maybe part of it has to do with how they became essential to the “slow dance” scene in an ’80s teen movie, but at its general core, I think it’s the way they sway without hurry as they rock you back and forth into a state of bliss. Like “Sleep Walk” and “Angel Baby” before it, “Pasa el Tiempo” nails this feeling, savoring the present moment as one would a warm summer night.
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Katherine St Asaph: In an alternate universe, Meghan Trainor’s doo-wop-pop sounds like this. This alternate universe is located somewhere in the Doldrums.
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Rebecca A. Gowns: Pasa el tiempo… muy lentamente y aburrido. There are stacks of songs from the 1950s that have way more personality than this, and a good number of 1950s-inspired/revival songs that have more charm. Caloncho: dormido.
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Mallory O’Donnell: Nostalgia’s just not the same these days, but when it comes with reverb this heavy we can maybe forget for a minute. Forget that those times were not so golden as we wanted, that those moments were maybe more bitter than sweet. Or perhaps they were everything, and we were just passing through. It’s a lot to think about, really, and frankly this guy is no help. Nice tune though.
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