Malachai

Add Date: February 22 

Artist: Malachai 

Album: Return to the Ugly Side 

Label: Domino 

Genre: Electronica, trip-hop, psych pop

Comments: From the promoter: "Talking influences, (Malachai vocalist) Gee mentions '60s pop-psych bands The 23rd Turnoff and The Savages; (bandmate) Scott adds Portishead's third and DJ Shadow's first, with a feel in tandem with recent Gonjasufi and Flying Lotus albums... (Malachai's) second record, Return to the Ugly Side, has more moods than your mom's old mood ring--everything from a beautifully orchestrated intro to a Lennonesque (song) 'Anne', to the metallic crunch and dreamy core of 'Mid-Antarctica (Wearing Sandals)' to the far-out psychedelia of 'Rainbows'... We like 3, 4, 10, 11."