About Your World, Your Summer World...

So here you are, going through the year thinking that you have all of your most anticipated releases completely mapped out, when a brief bout of Myspace searching informs you that you had no idea what you were most looking forward to at all. Cineplexx is primarily the project of Argentina raised/New York survivor/current Barcelona resident Sebastian Litmanovich. He has some help from family and friends of course (all the best ones do) though not all of the best ones are able to count such pop royalty as Duglas Stewart (BMX Bandits,) Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub,) and Jad Fair (Half Japanese,) amongst those helpful friends. All of these folks were contributors to the brand new Cineplex album Picnic, to say that it sounds as though it would make for lovely picnic music would be far to easy...

I will say that it's June 24 release date on Portia Records is fitting, as the record will likely inhabit your stereo for the entirety of the summer. In fact, this record will probably find it's way back to your radar summer after summer after summer for the purposes of mix CD creating, if nothing else. Based off of the songs that appear on the Myspace page, I am so far most enamored with the title track, a dreamy, yet slightly off kilter song whose vocals kind of make it sound as if it were recorded on an island inhabited by friendly ghosts. The carefree employment of xylophone helps this effect nicely. Also helping the beautiful oddness of this track is the presence of Jad Fair. All of the tracks make smart use of electronic elements as well as human elements (i.e. you can dance to most of them!) All maintain a sweet breezy pace. Most of the songs are sung in Spanish, the notable exception on the Myspace page being "Tiger Trap" (oh so deliciously twee in both the story detailed in the song, AND the likely reference to the band of the same name, um, and the fact that Duglas Stewart is singing it.) I simply can't wait until I am able to hear the entire thing. Until then, I will most likely be finding my way here, a lot.