I do love a bit of quirkiness. I've lost count of the oddball tracks I've plucked from albums to add to a playlist. You know those tracks? The ones that the artists recorded late at night after switching off from their more focussed LP graft to go with the cosmic flow. The products of one joint or beer too many? Tracks that were improvised at the behest of a band member who had just daydreamed a kooky idea or oddball motif.
Cumulonimbus 3000 is one of those tracks. Don't get me wrong Animal Prince's LP is well worth your time. In the great scheme of today's DAW enabled pop churn, it's sunny, sweet and refreshingly footloose. The impressively named Fae Nageon de Lestang's soulful tones ride her accomplished violin playing, urged on by partner in crime Grant McLeod's percussion as all sorts of synths swirl into perky and pleasing takes on various 20th century song forms - drum machine preset powered bossa, orchestral soul and sunny West Coast psychedelic pop.
I couldn't help but hone in on cumulonimbus 3000 though. It's as fluffy and daydreamy as the title suggests. The metronomic vintage drum machine ticks along like an excited grandfather clock, as vintage synths tinkle, reverse and drift through the speakers, accompanied by some whimsical light touch string picking. I know it's a quirky album interlude but it sounds great in The New Age of New Age Playlist. Come and check it out, then stay for the rest of the LP.
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