Altered Zones

This new track from Houston's Pink Playground sounded so off-kilter when I first clicked play that I wondered whether I hadn't left something else playing in another window. It had a clear drumbeat, but the meter didn't seem to match up with the vocals-- or the epic guitar bends that have people invoking MBV and "shoegaze" whenever they try to describe these guys. You may experience something of a shiver when all of these elements suddenly synch up, and you find yourself in the middle of an up-tempo, motorik space jam-- but the shift may be more of a perceptual one than a physical one (in other words, not something that happens in the actual song). Or maybe it's just a hallucination we experience if we keep our eyes fixed on this mash-up of Philippe Garrel's 1968 silent film Le Révélateur, courtesy Klaus Von Barrel. --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones

"Ten"/"Come Find" 10" is out now via Downwards