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Wunder Wunder - Everything Infinite

Review by Sam Willis

It is just another psych record.»

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Born under cloudless California sky and bled into leftover tape, Wunder Wunder is the rolling amnesia of a Los Angeles summer, the deathless West Coast, and drinking in the dreams of its young. The debut creation of Melbourne producers Aaron Shanahan and Benjamin Plant, 'Everything Infinite' is an album that captures lost moments spent in the pair's adopted city of LA and a unique exploration of their unspent ideas. Whether you put it down to the West Coast's elevated vitamin D levels or a more positive outlook, it's clear that Wunder Wunder are karma chameleons blending seamlessly into their new habitat. 'Midnight Hours' offers a smooth dose of cool Cliff Martinez night-time retro nostalgia, 'Trouble in Utopia' sounds like Animal Collective and Temples exchanging their own campfire stories, and the album's big pop moment comes via 'Hail The Madmen's funky Prince-like groove. Melding swaying, dappled guitars, rasping layers of harmony, dreamy delays and a warm tangle of vintage synthesizers and drums, Everything Infinite is a brilliantly executed concoction of mellow 70s lo-fi chords, the sonic and progressive sounds of 60s psychedelia, a distillation of sun-bleached yearning and the undulating 90s pop sounds of Shanahan's teenage years; each track its own kaleidoscopic motif that tessellates and reflects light like a shower of sun-kissed sequins.
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