2013-11-21
New Zealand has its very own Ariel Pink. Connan Mockasin, a mop-topped blonde "pop sprite" - who broke onto the scene with his first solo effort, 2010's Forever Dolphin Love - is the newest sensation in the world of weirdo psyche-funk. With Caramel, Mockasin comes across as a bizarrely seductive figure, each song oozing with undeniably sexy grooves and his accompanying voice that croons or growls, depending on the context. The fact that the album was self-recorded within a month's span in a Tokyo hotel room makes too much sense.
THE FRESH & ONLYS
House of Spirits
Richard X. Heyman
Actual Sighs
MY MORNING JACKET
Evil Urges
SETH BERNARD AND FRIENDS
Airborne or Aquatic?
K.D. LAND AND THE SISS BOOM BANG
SING IT LOUD
Buckwheat Zydeco
Jackpot!
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