RBTS WIN, psych-pop relaxation
We all know of the nonchalance of that dog sitting on the back shelf of a car. Not the poor shut-in poodle dying from heat stroke in a supermarket carpark. It’s the another one. You know, the gadget that dresses up your chav car, which matches with your lower body attire. It’s that same plastic bulldog, light brown peach skin, spiky necklace, nodding his head at the slightest tremor in a backward look. So, in an analogy which is a little farfetched, here’s what “Beach Child” can trigger as a reflex. This track can perpetrate extreme relaxation, shear bliss, that will make you catch flies. And even if you resist, you will inevitably think about it.
It is in this irresistible placidness that the new album from the duo RBTS WIN is released. Javier Bola and Cliff B. Worsham signs with “Palm Sunday” an album which is eclectic and rich in soul , pop and R’n’B influence. The band was formed in 2008 just after Javier moved from the beautiful and sunny Miami to the mountains of Asheville (North Carolina) where he met Cliff. These two divisions give the album a contrasted atmosphere, which changes direction all the time : With the numbness of “Beach Child” the delectable heaviness of “Death Magic” and “Purple Smoke” and the Latin pop of “Bodega Trip. “We finish listening quenched by the commotion, intoxicated to the bone and happy to have found THE disc that will be played in the car this summer. Without praying to the high tides, it is the soul that relaxed the orgy of “Palm Sunday” on a burning palm beach where x number of palm tress would be willing to take their bow.
Text by © Julien Catala
RBTS WIN’s “Palm Sunday” is released 20 May, 2014.
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