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James Pants: "Clouds Over The Pacific"

6:11 p.m. · May 2, 2011 · by Andrew Martin

James Pants is a tough artist to narrow down genre-wise. His tracks tend to jump from boom-bap electro to smooth tropicalia to synth-driven madness without so much as a warning. Yet, he pulls it off pretty flawlessly, even if his style-jumping can come off a little erratic at times. Proving that point is the latest single from his self-titled third album, which begins as a pleasant, albeit noisy, jam. "Clouds Over the Pacific" then breaks into a distorted, over-driven wall of sound before each instrumental element reconvenes for a brief love affair. Portions of the track touch on subgenres such as chillwave, dream pop, and the like, but nothing sticks long enough to place it in a proper box. Maybe it's their shared progressive nature that drew Pants and Tyler, the Creator to each other.

James Pants is available now on Stones Throw and drops tomorrow everywhere else.

James Pants - Clouds Over the Pacific by stonesthrow