JUNE

R.I.P

i’ll see ya later tomorrow

"Swim Dream" has something special. Right off the bat, I was pretty sure of that. In fact, the first time that i heard the song, from the Oslo based dream/orchestral pop act, Ludvig Moon - I spent the next several minutes realizing that it was something that i didn’t even realize that I missed. It’s the sound (or vibe, i guess) that I missed. How can I miss something that I hadn’t heard? Well, it’s not that I had heard this particular gorgeous blast of blissful orchestral pop, before - but it calls to mind a kind of sound that maybe hit it’s peak with the release of Sufjan Stevens' Illinois album. There’s a sweetly, optimistic and natural atmosphere at play amidst the strings and choral vocals. Despite the similarity to the sounds of an album almost a decade old, it doesn’t feel stale or retreaded. What Ludvig Moon does here is build a majestic beauty that is rarely heard these days in the era of everything-darker, everything-minimal or electronic. “Swim Dream” is a wonderful track and an exciting introduction to a band that’s kind of going against the grain a bit, but in spite of all that hyperbole, what really matters is that this is an excellent song - period. I can’t stop listening. 

m83 // moonchild

fukami rika // natsuhiboshi

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