BEST OF 2015- ARTIST LISTS
Copenhagen X London based artist Sebastian Zieler TICKTOCK gave us a sumptous and surreal listening experience with his experimental pop EP Fault Lines earlier this month. Here is his immense list of his favourite tracks of 2015. Enjoy below!
DREAMTRAK - Do Re Mi Ungh! This track is almost vulgar. It's so fun. I don't know about you, but it makes me feel like I'm a 1000' robot with a 300' dick smashing planets on a light-speed journey through space (I admit that I'm recycling the description I used for this track from a playlist last month, but it's still the one that comes to mind). SOPHIE - VYZEE This is the sound that SOPHIE's previous stuff made me imagine. It sounds so realised. You can almost feel the texture of the track at your fingertips. Rangleklods - Lost U It sounds like every single sound in this track has been given an equal amount of space and volume. It's so packed out! And solid sounding. It also gives me the same kind of feeling I'd get when the 14-16 year olds at the skate park acknowledged my existence when I was 11. Like I'm in on something really cool. And maybe kind of illegal. Pixx - A Way To Say Goodbye Hannah Rodgers' is 4Ad's newest signing. A Way To Say Goodbye was the first I ever heard from her. It kicks off with her wonderful voice singing the melodic equivalent to aerial silks, over a backbone of submerged-sounding bass and guitar.
Palace Winter - Woke In The Night, Phone Was Ringing This is a beautiful song. I don't know what it's about, but it feels fateful. As if whatever it is about was completely unavoidable, had to happen and changed everything. Hey Palace Winter, if you read this will you tell me what it's about? Empress Of - Water Water Water Water sounds like something is worked through and you almost feel out of breath by the end of it. Apparently Lorely Rodriguez made the melody for this while dancing around to the beat of the track in a house in Mexico with open windows, facing the water. Girl Band - De Bom Bom How can something sound so corrosive and enjoyable at the same time? Vince Staples - Loca There's real weight behind every bassy element on this track - everything hits the eardrum with a thud and leaves you with aural equivalent of afterimages from a slow strobe light. The words follow suit and are delivered like drunken punches that connect; off-kilter and heavy. The Internet - Girl (feat. KAYTRANADA) So direct. So smooth. So cool. It’s a slow-dance in low gravity. La Leif - Chalkpit This starts off beautiful and dream-like. Like wooden ships slowly chugging through the mist, sound dampened with vapor. It ends up sounding like a DJ traveled back in time and threw the wildest rave for a band of Vikings.
