For fans of: Mystic psych grooves.

What they're saying: A nice synopsis from Jay Balfour‘s review on Pitchfork: “Intentionally mysterious, the project was crafted to resemble an obscure ‘60s or ‘70s library record, the kind of purposefully anonymous mood music used by TV shows and movie houses to cheaply soundtrack their productions. In a vacuum, most library records are campy and awkward, but a select few feel like mystical accidents, cross-genre laboratory experiments that yield bizarre new life forms. Sven Wunder has successfully aimed Doğu Çiçekleri in this direction, and so it feels less helpful to describe the music as jazz or funk than to back away and simply call it heavy.”

What we say: I cannot stop playing this debut album from Sven Wonder. It's funky and perks me right up in these dark times we're living in. -K