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. Pieces
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.