Exitmusic

Add Date: May 22 

Artist: Exitmusic 

Album: Passage 

Label: Secretly Canadian 

Genre: Rock, dream pop 

Comments: Passage is the debut full-length from Brooklyn duo Exitmusic on Secretly Canadian (Here We Go Magic, The War on Drugs). From the record label: "Exitmusic combines chiming, blurry guitars with the soaring wails and the heavenly sighs of singer Aleksa Palladino. Passage is dream pop for film noir dreamers: lulling, apocalyptic, celestial, triumphant... RIYL: Beach House, Portishead, Florence & the Machine..."

While that Florence & the Machine comparison is puzzling, I wouldn't object to describing Exitmusic's sound as a cross between the ethereal pop of Beach House and the trippy alternative of Portishead. The songs on Passage waft along hazily, with cinematic soundscapes breaking out into glorious dream pop.

Start with tracks 2, 1, 8 and 4.