Cars & Trains

Today's update features an artist hailing from sunny Portland, OR. His name is Tom Fillep, but he goes by cars & trains. His music draws largely from that anticon/mush sound of Clouddead, Why?, Telephone Jim Jesus and others. In fact, Sole lends his vocal stylings to "The Sky is Clear". The iTunes genre tag calls it electronic/dance. I think you could dance to it, but it would be occuring at half-speed with soft lights pulsating on walls and lots of pillows strewn about. I didn't mean for that to sound so soft-core porn, but it speaks to the mellowww phantasmagoria of the album. The production sounds almost tactile and organic. I imagine it would translate well into an intimate live show.

"Rusty String" is out now on circle into square records.

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