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Loch & Key’s husband and wife team Sean Hoffman and Leyla Akdogan Hoffman—former member of critically acclaimed art rockers American Music Club & LA upstarts Bedroom Walls and multimedia visual artist, respectively— have crafted a lush, high fidelity and sonically ambiguous follow-up album to their 2010 debut release, Jupiter’s Guide for Submariners. Slow Fade introduces touches of jazz and folk to a musical kaleidoscope of pop, ambient electronic, minimalist guitar shapes and distant vocals which coalesce into something familiar yet altogether original. Described as “dream wave,” Loch & Key’s music stops a teaspoon short of saccharine and is a welcome addition to the dwindling fraternity of smart pop. Fans of Mazzy Star, Nick Drake, and Francoise Hardy can connect the musical dots constructing a surreal lyrical ode to their adopted home state of California. It’s an album both rich and vivid, stark yet full sounding, and unafraid to pay tribute to the many great American musical dialects. It’s the sound of faraway places, exotic daydreams and open road weariness. An aural cocktail that would make a superb companion for a quiet Sunday morning or a dreamy end to the perfect Saturday night.
CONDITION: NEW
TRACK LISTING
1 Seen Not Heard 3:07
2 Deep Space 2:51
3 Gil Perez 3:51
4 More Tales of the Could've Been Kid 2:29
5 Barstow 2:44
6 Kaspar Hauser 3:12
7 Big Cats 2:41
8 A Throne for the Clouds 3:20
9 Madonna Inn 3:24
10 Admiral Risty 3:22
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