by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Back on New Year’s Day, Zach Phillips’ Fievel Is Glauque project released one of the winter’s best albums, a surprise record with an elaborate collection of collaborators that came together to create jazzy experimental indie pop. Just a few months later and Phillips is back with another release on his new La Loi Records, the debut of a new project, Perfect Angels. Joined by Olia Eichenbaum on vocals and a slew of frequent collaborators (Ryan Power, Chris Cohen, Shoko Igarashi), the band’s own brand of dreamy avant-garde lounge pop is equally enchanting and spaced-out, with a silky resolve that permeates their late night grooves throughout Exit From The Ultra-World.
With a great selection of tracks already available on their Bandcamp page, the band are sharing new single “Orchids Are Not Sold,” a song that is an immediate stand-out on an album that feels like surrealist daydream. Without any guest features, the song finds the duo together, bending a fractured jazz structure led by a pretty wild piano composition, one that really finds its own space as the movement becomes increasingly free, and a reflexive rhythm that swings it all in place. The lyrics are simple and poetic, as Eichenbaum sings, “orchids on a grave, these orchids do not age they do well in winter, they are what you do not lose.” It beautifully detached and yet feverishly focused, another night of dimly light and increasingly unique experimental bent pop.