Cheapskate - The Sea (Shed Pop)
- The Slow Music Movement
- 7 minutes ago
- 1 min read
Cheapskate is one of those deliciously hard to pin down acts that naturally flirts between genres to produce a marketing nightmare fusion that reminds you of a lot of things at various times, often in the same song, but ultimately is one of those rare things, a pretty fresh sound.
Cheapskate first raised his musical head from his Liverpool home in 2010 with a microdosed, jazz licked mod vibe before slowly turning up the dosage, dialling down the funk and increasing the genre fluidity by throwing in some dreamy indie pop and hazy exotica.
His new single, "The Sea" is summer primed fuzzy pop that is sweltering in the heat and in no hurry to perspire further if it can help it. Lackadaisical, bossa indebted guitar noodling and synth emanating strings straight out of a 70's TV show get the ball rolling before a languid vintage hip hop drum loop signals to Cheapskate that it's time to persuade his lover and partner in crime that carefree beach life, far away from the prying eyes of the world's security services, is preferable to sweating it out in their city safe-house.
It's a fine slice of opiated lo-fi exotica meets hazy dream pop, and if that is a bit too ethereal for you there's a crunchy downtempo remix courtesy of Jim Noir's Seamix that beefs up the low end frequencies, messes with the lysergic drip, ups the electronics and adds some suitably low key drama, so take your side from this cheeky 7" and give him a follow for more fun in the sun.
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