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Clay Jordan and Howard Hudson formed pacificUV in the late 1990s in Athens, Georgia. One of them wanted the band to sound like a psychedelic Jesus and Mary Chain tripping on Nyquil, while the other wanted to play one chord for 45 minutes to determine its color. Somehow, what emerged from these disparate goals was their self-titled debut album that Rolling Stone called a “masterpiece”. The perfect mixture of noise and melody, the first L.P. was a sprawling ambient landscape that revealed a myriad of influences, from shoegaze to 60’s rock, to slow core to post-rock. Skip ahead a few years (and a change of location to Portland, Oregon) and Longplay 2 is released, again to ardent critical praise: the sound of the debut record has been refined, with a more assured command of dynamics and tighter songwriting, but still sounding like it was beamed in from a distant planet. Their newest full-length, Weekends, is set to be released in January 2012 and it will feature a host of Athens music luminaries including BP Helium (Of Montreal), John Fernandez (Olivia Tremor Control), and Heather McIntosh (Lil Wayne, Azure Ray). Chrysalis EP (which includes two remixes, a fantastic cover of The Smiths and the special vocals of Carolyn Berk on one track) can be seen as a precursor of Weekends and it’s the perfect stuff to make our mouths water.

ARTIST: pacificUV
TITLE: Chrysalis EP
LABEL: PopHeart
RELEASE DATE: September 19, 2011
TIME: 19:17 min.
WEB: http://www.pacificuv.com/

01. Ballerina (remix) [05:05]
02. Lakes [03:41]
03. Sunday Night Dream (remix) [03:39]
04. Please Please Please [03:28]
05. The Archduke [03:24]

pacificUV – Please Please Please

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