LISTEN: Tanlines Shift Gears with Jangly New Track “Slipping Away”

“Highlights” will be out May 19 on True Panther Sounds
LISTEN: Tanlines Shift Gears with Jangly New Track “Slipping Away”

“Highlights” will be out May 19 on True Panther Sounds

Words: Nate Rogers

photo by Autumn de Wilde

March 16, 2015

2015. Tanlines press photo by Autumn de Wilde

Tanlines—the electropical duo of Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm who soundtracked your summer of 2012—have announced the follow-up to Mixed Emotions and, yep, it’ll be here just as the weather begins to warm in earnest.

The news of Highlights, the band’s second full-length, comes with the single “Slipping Away,” a track that finds the duo working in far less sample-driven territory, and instead exploring guitar-based arrangements and textures.

Explaining the reason for the stylistic departure from Mixed Emotions, singer/guitarist Emm cites an explosion of their computer (literally “with a burst of sparks and clouds of smoke”) as the catalyst. “Whatever had just happened felt like some kind of omen,” he says.

Highlights tracklisting

1. PiecesTanlines-2015-Highlights-Cover_Art
2. Slipping Away
3. Palace
4. Two Thousand Miles
5. Invisible Ways
6. Bad Situations
7. Running Still
8. Thinking
9. If You Stay
10. Darling Dreamer

 

 

Highlights is out May 19 on True Panther Sounds.