Gayngs have got emotional baggage; they want you to feel what they’re feeling and they’ll convey it to you in whatever way works for you. It would be easy to classify Relayted as part of the Glo Fi movement, but it owes more to the new age of Enigma and the woozy jazz of early Portishead. While many atmospheric bands of late seem to shy away from any remotely commercial sounds, Gayngs have produced a record that let its melodic accessibility compliment its denser qualities.
[81.00] The super-group formed in 2010 known as Gayngs, including Justin Vernon, Dessa, P.O.S, and 19 other production visionaries chose to create a single 11 track album and then never do anything past that, except for a single release a decade later. Supposedly the entire record is influenced by a 10cc song, and so every track is at 69bpm, which drives the soft-rock alternative sound that I pick out on the surface, though it goes much deeper, the instrumentation like Bon Iver's more recent ... read more
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