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CMU Approved
Approved: Last Days Of 1984
By Marc Samuels | Published on Tuesday 24 April 2012
This group’s name refers to what some might consider a significant moment in pop music, since the close of said year marked the end of that thrilling five year period of shiny new pop that was eventually trampled to death by Live Aid, opening the doors for all the over-produced, coke-addled bilge that was subsequently released until Acid House saved us all (or so music history goes).
Though, despite name-checking a golden era of pop music in their name, this Dublin duo actually manage the rare feat of being impossible to pigeonhole into a specific era or year. Their music is built on melancholy waves of dreamy electronics, with emotive vocals and mellifluous melodies straddling the insistent (and occasionally Afro-beat) rhythms. The end result is a kaleidoscope of tropical colour which, strangely, feels icily European in places at the same time.
Like Junior Boys gone chillwave, or Rainbow Arabia remixed by Visions Of Trees, their forthcoming debut album ‘Wake Up To The Waves’ is packed with similarly epic and euphoric electronic music. It’s out on Osaka Records on 7 May, whilst the video for ‘River’s Edge’ is up on Vimeo now: