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New Super VHS: “Remember The Night”

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Here’s a new slice of lo-fi pop (listen to that tape hiss!) from Super VHS. “Remember The Night” inspires me to bust out one of the most dreaded words in music writing recently – nostalgic. The bedroom-recording techniques, the fact the vocals sort of ripple underneath the music and that the whole song reminds me of Ducktails (the musical project, not the money-loaded fowl). Yet this isn’t just retro for retro’s sake – like Ducktails, Super VHS seems in love with an aged sound and creates something deliberately nostalgic…see the title…that almost sounds like you could touch it. It’s also the sort of catchy pop song that, once you get over the 80’s, is hard not to bob along to. Listen below.

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New Super VHS: “Goodbye My Old Friend”

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Lo-fi project Super VHS sure know how to get a lot out of a little. New song “Goodbye My Old Friend” finds VHS teasing a slightly disorienting dance beat to open up the song, before warm keyboard and typically muffled vocals creep in. What really makes “Goodbye My Old Friend” – and most of Super VHS’ music up to this point – interesting is all the small touches they fit into these economical tunes. Check the distant vocals lurking beneath the already intelligible main singing, or the way new drum sounds just pop up at times in the manic back-half of the track. It closes with a nice guitar bit, a nice low-budget exclamation point for a song done by one of the better bare-bones folks in Japan. Listen below.

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New Super VHS: Girlfriends EP

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Last week, chilled-out group Super VHS dropped a new EP for free over at Bandcamp just waiting for you to click the “download” button. Girlfriends features two relatively relaxed tracks, both moving like a lazy Sunday afternoon and with a little fog slightly crowding the scene. The title track moves along slowly, the guitars gently pushing everything ahead except for the times they twang off, the closest “Girlfriends” come to anything “tropical.” The vocals get blanketed in just enough fuzz to make them feel ancient (think Dirty Beaches). Breezy nostalgia. The other song attached here is “I Want You To Find Me,” tagged as a cover though I’m gonna admit I have no idea what song. And Google isn’t coming through, though maybe it’s Japanese! Anywho, “I Want You To Find Me” follows “Girlfriends'” raking-the-leaves pace, letting the guitars and tinkling electronics gives this a laid-back feel. Only the beat really hints at anything approaching immediacy, but doesn’t intrude enough to kill the vibe. Download the EP here.

New Super VHS: “I’ll Still Love You”

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Super VHS seem to be focusing on the inevitable endings hurled at one throughout life. They recently came to grips with the passing of the best season, and on new song “I’ll Still Love You” they hopelessly croon “I’ll still love you anyway.” Though it might not be the best prescription, they should probably keep probing this emotional cavern because these last few songs keep topping one another in overall quality. “I’ll Still Love You” works so well, I’m gonna give it the biggest backhanded criticism I can…song is way too short.

Whereas Super VHS have hovered around the chill border for awhile now, “I’ll Still Love You” hops to life from the get-go courtesy a jogging beat and sprinting guitar touches. The vocals remain relatively shrouded, moving so quickly they seemingly come close to tripping over themselves, only the aforementioned chorus rising above a muffle. Though that line packs a direct emotional punch, the main heart of “I’ll Still Love You” thumps via a whirring synth rising up and then back down throughout the track’s too-brief run. It captures the hopelessness of the whole titular situation just right – a machine trying to delude itself into thinking it won’t be outdated recyclables some day. The entire jaunt lasts 1:33, though I wish it could go on a whole lot longer. But then again, I think that’s the point. Listen below.

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New Super VHS: “Summer Vacation”

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OK, this one might actually fulfill your preconceptions. Super VHS’ latest song goes by the name of “Summer Vacation,” and if that wasn’t enough they went and tagged the track as “Chillwave” on SoundCloud. Not that they needed to, track speaks for itself…the vocals get slightly obscured, a pleasantly chilly keyboard line plays during the entire thing and the whole song carries an atmosphere of bedroom-relaxing. It’s also the young group’s best number to date, an unhurried number that at moments might seem a bit too genre-stereotypical, but Super VHS pull it off well and create an absorbing feeling with some neat touches (that guitar late in the track, for one). Like its title, “Summer Vacation” is a slowly unfolding time that, down the line, carries a lot of good memories. Listen below.

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UPDATE: Super VHS posted a video clip to go with “Summer Vacation” about an hour ago. Watch it below!

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SUPER VHS/SUMMER VACATION from yuki on Vimeo.