Plutonic Rainbows

Plutonic Rainbows

Castelvania on iOS

Completely out of the blue, Konami have released a port of the classic 1997 game. It's available on the App Store now. It appears to be based on the PSP and PS4 versions of the game rather than the PlayStation original.

There’s support for external controllers, achievements, and a new continue feature. It can be played in six languages: English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Lucy In Disguise - Unknown Frequency

Catchy hooks, dreamy pads, broken beats & thumping bass take you back to the 1980s.

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Steve Wilson

Perfect Life.

The Caretaker - Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Dreams

The Caretaker has abandoned darker and hard to grasp memories in favour of an altogether warmer journey which upon exposure invades the very core of your being. This is a very personal album for the listener, pre-soul music from a bygone era which will attack your senses in a way both comfortable and uncomfortable all at once.

Available from Bandcamp.

The Quietus reviews Lame Impala

Cal Cashin:

It took Kevin Parker five years of reclusive writing before The Slow Rush was ready for human consumption. His group Tame Impala started off at the dawn of the 2010s as a charming psych-revival curiosity, but second and third albums Lonerism and Currents saw the group slowly mutate into something far bigger; an escapist pop act capable of headlining festivals.

Notoriously, Parker is one of these musicians that spends literal years labouring over fine details to ensure everything is the best it can be. He rigorously considers every single drum sound, piano loop, and vocal texture, and pours unimaginable quantities of energy into the signature Tame Impala sound. Parker is clearly a talented producer, and has shown in the past that his musical graft often reaps satisfying melodies. It is this perfectionism that defines 2015’s smooth-but-insubstantial Currents, and new LP The Slow Rush is certainly cut from the same cloth.

So that begs the question; if Parker is such a perfectionist, how come all of his songs are fucking terrible?

Tame Impala frustrate throughout The Slow Rush. Whilst Parker’s talents as a producer certainly flicker throughout, his limitations as a songwriter prevent any songs on the record from really catching light at any point. The Slow Rush is background music, it’s supposed to bring good vibes but it dims every room that it is played in.