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Various Artists - Alley of the Sun '2024

Alley of the Sun
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Album name Alley of the Sun
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Date 2024
GenreElectronic,New Age,Ambient
Play time 01:32:39
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 508 MB
PriceDownload $4.95
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Raise a glass to 20 years of Not Not Fun with their 400th (!!!) release, a
sublime cross-section of sidelong psych, lower case club music and new new age
ambient by a constellation of alumni and affiliates who all chime with the
sound.

For two decades NNF has been a reliable source of lysergic sauce from the
peripheries and blind spots of the 3rd eye, weathering multiple vibe shifts and
playing instrumental roles in movements such as vaporware, lo-fi house (both on
main and sister label 100% Silk), and knew age ambient. We’ve long
marvelled at their constant stream of releases, replete with great press
releases that reflect the label’s none-too-selfserious approach to
surfing the waves of underground, popular-adjacent musics. ‘Alley of the
Sun’ epitomises their tenacity and tastes with 16 morsels that give
newcomers a bird’s eye view of their sun-kissed soundscape and jog
memories of those who’ve followed them thus far, or picked up along the
way from whatever junction, thumbing up along their endless highway. 

Old faithfuls, X.Y.R., and Robedoor - aka label co-founders Alex & Britt Brown
w/ M. Geddes Gengras - bookend the set with a prologue of pseudo-Amazonian
ambient made on old Soviet synths, and a sky-razing, 12’ drone rock
excursion, respectively, that ideally characterise the label’s aesthetic
contrasts and mutualities. Between those poles they refract the spangled
imagination across multiple dimensions spanning Frunk29’s lo-fi echoes of
Silver Apples in ‘Journey In Search of the Holy Gray’, the scuzzy
Skaters-esque psych gauze of ‘Headlights in Rearview’ by New
Mexican Stargazers, and onwards, ever outwards, thru a lilting psych-rock beauty
‘On Love’ from White Poppy, to smudged boogie sleaze by Essential
Key, thru David Eden’s imaginative new age synth planes, the BoC-like
nostalgic wow and flutter of Golden Hallway Music, and effervescent 4th world
infusions of of Vague Imaginaires, with a really piquant twist of synth magic in
‘Flesh Tectonics’ by Severed+Said. 

Tracklist:
1-1. X. Y. R - Wind Chimes Voices (07:54)
1-2. Frunk29 - Journey In Seach Of The Holy Gray (04:37)
1-3. sip - Grand Avenue (03:21)
1-4. New Mexican Stargazers - Headlights In Rearview (06:59)
1-5. White Poppy - On Love (04:31)
1-6. Essential Key - Cold City (03:29)
1-7. UNKNOWN ME - Mirage Of Ocean (04:38)
1-8. Magnétophonique - V50 Tone Transfer (01:23)
1-9. David Edren - Vienya (03:17)
1-10. Andra Ljos - Silver Wings And A Drop Of Blood (06:01)
1-11. Wave Temples - Side Quest (06:39)
1-12. Golden Hallway Music - Evening Sky People (Yaman Dream) (06:46)
1-13. Vague Imaginaires - VI: La Corniche (09:32)
1-14. Filthy Huns - Bleached Skull In The Desert Moonlight (05:18)
1-15. Severed+Said - Flesh Tectonics (05:26)
1-16. Robedoor - Drainage (12:48)

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