Blog: The Vinyl District

I’m not ashamed to admit that I didn’t get it when I first heard Liftoff's   Sunday Morning Airplay . But after the second listen, the effect was more... surreptitious. I had Saint Etienne dreams of chillwave proportions. The band is a new collabo of Steven Albert , Steve and Johnna Raskin (of Speedy Consuela), and Thievery Corporation’s Rob Myers . Together they don’t just create sounds; instead, they lay out rich soundscapes that recall the aforementioned Etienne, Calexico (by way of Ennio Morricone ), and Portishead. [...]