like a monet in socal

I love the tex­ture of the low smog in South­ern California. 

It all looks hand paint­ed with a dropoff that specif­i­cal­ly looks scraped with a painters knife. Heavy on top and then fad­ing out al­most impressionistically.

And so we love sum­mer songs that sound like sum­mer songs, win­ter songs that sound like win­ter, etc. 

But the way mu­sic pro­duc­tion and re­lease works, those songs are most like­ly made months in advance. 

So maybe bro, just maybe, what we think are sum­mer-sound­ing songs are AC­TU­AL­LY win­ter-sound­ing songs. 

I made a Cal­i­for­nia Groove playlist. 

Some of the stuff on it is lost to the ages, like Christo­pher Cross’ 1979 stuff – which ap­par­ent­ly Spo­ti­fy has noth­in to do with – but I still have about 4 and a half hours of it here. 

Some of this is Yacht, some is Neo, some is Soft Pop, some veers dan­ger­ous­ly close to 1980s Yup­pie Chablis Pop but I tried to cull the worst of­fend­ers in that regard. 

This isn’t the playlist you put on to hear Brandy and Ride Like the Wind. This is the one you reach for when you’ve heard all the Yacht main­stays and you’re ready to drift fur­ther out. 

En­joy!

 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2019 Ja­son Malm­berg. Al­bum cov­er adapt­ed from Jason’s foto by Don Button.

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