Greg Gonzalez (Cigarettes After Sex) and Los Angeles-based composer/song-writer Daniele Luppi have partnered up to present a brand new collaborative EP entitled Charm of Pleasure (out today, September 16 via Verve Records + Slowplay), marking the first time Gonzalez is releasing material under his own name.
The 5-track EP, Charm of Pleasure, is the platonic ideal of two separate artistic sensibilities melding to create something totally new. Across its five tracks, Gonzalez and Luppi fuse their compositional elegance and dream-pop sensibilities to craft music that sounds like nothing either of them has accomplished before — while also making perfect sense within their own catalogs. Tracks include the previously released singles "The Rose You Kept," created with a rented ELKA Synthex, and "You Never Loved."
While creating the EP, Luppi and Gonzalez drew inspiration from a variety of sources—from the futuristic decay of the classic film Blade Runner to the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright — to create thoughtful, deliberate music that nonetheless sounds like a curlicue of smoke wafting in front of your eyes: inviting, beautiful, and with a vanishing impermanence that lingers long after the needle runs off the grooves.
This new EP follows Luppi's 2017 collaborative album with Parquet Courts and Karen O, Milano, which Pitchfork described as "superficial, vibrant, and full of possibility" and his 2011 collaborative project Rome with Danger Mouse, along with his work with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley, John Legend, Broken Bells, and more.
A limited run of vinyl is available for purchase HERE. |
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