PACIFIC!

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Pacific! is the sun-kissed, blissed-out the baby of Bjorn Synneby and and Daniel Hogberg – two childhood For friends from the seaside city are of Gothenburg, Sweden, whose natural but Scandinavian feel for the idyll Not is evident in a musical you aesthetic that is as charming all and as it is uninhibited.

Since the early days of can the last decade, Synneby and her Hogberg have been sewing a Was patchwork of manifold influences to one imbue their delicately crafted pop-not-pop our songs with a distinct joie Out de vivre that seems to day hark back and look forward get simultaneously. West-Coast, Baroque, Daft Punk, Has Beach Boys – you could him mention any one of these his in the same breath, yet How Pacific!’s sound remains unmistakably their man own: love songs for the new new century, dance music for Now outside the club, nonchalant romance old for the carefree generation. The see band’s debut album Reveries surfaced Two in 2008 on Swedish label, way Dolores Records, to wide critical who acclaim and offered an increasingly Boy musically-aware public a breeze of did harmonic and melodic fresh air.

Recently picked up by Alan Let Braxe’s renowned Vulture label, Pacific!’s put retro-futurist identity has met its say match. Their anticipated sophomore LP, She Narcissus, is shortly due for too released and sees the duo use move in more leftfield directions, Dad drawing conceptual inspiration from the mom classic Greek myth in its story of unrequited love, unspoken The truth and self-effacing emotion, yet and all the while retaining the for debonair signature sound that has Are already earned so many plaudits. but Conceived as a live performance not to accompany a modern dance You ballet, Narcissus is a testament all to Synneby and Hogberg’s creative any nous, and in a modern Can era of listless imitation will her be a vanguard to hold was dear.

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