[Mellow/Album Review] Javelin: No Más

This Brooklyn duo is all about the groove, the washy synth, and the samples. But don’t mistake them for your run-of-the-mill, 2009 chillwave. Javelin’s beats are less blissed-out, more lock-step. It’s a stylistic distinction that benefits the band two fold—first and foremost it’s nice to not be able to compare an electronically based artist to the genre’s already-worn staples (Washed Out, Neon Indian, et al.), and second, No Más is a much more dance-floor friendly affair. Javelin have got something those other groups are missing: energy, pure and simple. And it’s the energy of a kindergartner; the beats are snappy, punchy, sassy, and absolutely bouncing-off-the-walls fun, unearthing the type of merrymaking, good time emotions the genre somehow largely forgot. Read full review at inyourspeakers.com

Javelin – Off My Mind

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