Galaxy Juice: I’m still a bit undecided on whether I can truly get behind this, but this works so well as background music I couldn’t ignore it. Can a djembe, saxophone, and synthesizer blend together for an ambient psychedelic trip? Have you ever listened to a band from Kuwait City? Have you ever looked up a band just because of a hashtag you saw on instagram? I did, and I found this.

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The Walker: This is another instagram discovery. This project out of Texas I found while surfing the hashtag #dreampop, although this isn’t exactly what first comes to mind when I think of this genre. Genres be darned anyway – they are somewhat just marketing jargon amiright? “Pearl” is the best song I found while exploring the record of the same name, which meanders among soft drumming, ethereal male and female vocals, and both acoustic and electric strumming. Bandcamp link here.

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Dirtwire: I checked this out because I had to see what electro-acoustic sounds like. Sounds like an impossible genre, kinda like hip hop country. Well, if Nelly can use Tim McGraw in a big mid-00s hit, perhaps a member of Beats Antique can pull off a similar feat, albeit in different genre. To call it acoustic is still a stretch at times, but I dig the tribal, jangly riffage and raw no-frills production that juxtaposes the digital wanderings.

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