Experimental pop music always had many faces, but at the moment one thing above all: an electronic one. The duo Monde Ufo from Los Angeles justifies a particularly lovable exception with its experimental Bedroom Psychedelia, which seems to be out of time alike and seems to be state-of-learned. Ray Monde (musician) and Kris Chau (non-musician) beam us into a nebulous parallel universe that sounds as if Air had treated themselves to more experiment and even more free jazz.
Or as if you had locked the Silver Apple in a cassette deck with John Coltrane in the 1960s. The jazz makes its way through psychedelic worlds in the form of an groaning saxophone, Ray Monde indulges in a shy vocals in Bittersweeter Space-Melancholia. Every now and then you can listen to a guitar when dying, such as in “Sunset Entertainment” or “Old Town Pollution”, where the saxophone is recovering towards the end and simply roaring into the orbit.
“Samba 9” is of course not a samba, but a baroque space pop, it’s about the adidas shoe Samba in size 9, which the singer had as a child. The musical samba, however, then takes place later in the album, in the play “119”. Flamingo Tower is puzzling and eccentrically, at the same time a bit snacking: you can’t want more from experimental pop music.
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