Product Description
Some called Studio, the project of Swedish musicians Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, “the missing link between The Cure and Lindstrøm,” Pitchfork heard Durutti Column and Can, as the duo’s story became swept up in a loosely developing scene — adjacent first to the label Service (Jens Lekman, The Whitest Boy Alive) and later Sincerely Yours (The Tough Alliance, jj) — and a precursor to the 2010s boom at the axis of electronic and psychedelic music guided by indie greats like Caribou, Four Tet, and Darkside.
West Coast, their seminal 2006 debut, captured a faraway romanticism of Balearic brushed up against Krautrock, disco, dub, and afrobeat, with pop lyricism lifted from new wave, all made modern by two art school grads in Gothenburg. First pressed in a small vinyl-only run via their own Information label, the album has been notably absent from most streaming services, and the internet’s record of its initial impact is all but fossilized from a bygone blog era, while its sound is simply untraceable to any one moment in music.
- "One of the finest pieces of electronic music you'll hear this year.” - The Guardian (2006)
- Included in year-end best-of write-ups by Pitchfork, FACT Magazine, and Rough Trade
- Physical copies have long been out of print for West Coast, and the album has also been notably absent from most streaming services until now.
Tracklisting:
01. Out There
02. West Coast
03.Origin
04. Life’s A Beach!
05. Self Service
06. Indo
