Das neue Santpoort Album kommt in wundervollem Artwork und passend dazu blauem Vinyl auf LP via Friends Of Friends. Großartiger Lo-Fi Pop-Sound! Für Fans von: TORO Y MOI, QUICKLY, QUICKLY, KYSON,WASHED OUT, BIBIO

You can’t go home again, but Julien Mier attempts to whenever herecords as Santpoort. The Sydney-based producer/vocalist, composer,and visual artist mentally and musically revisits his Netherlandshometown of Santpoort, a small coastal village of lush, green forestsbordered by sloping sand dunes, with each project. “I draw inspirationfrom a place that I haven’t been for so long,” Julien says. “That createsthis feeling of nostalgia and melancholy in my music.”
Since 2018’s picturebook, Julien has crafted a wistful, poignant blendof softly knocking beat music and lo-fi, psychedelic pop under theSantpoort alias. Each self-illustrated album cover is an invitation to joinhim in a sonic world of sepia-hued memories, some vivid and othersrapidly fading away. They are the scores to reflective sojourns into thewilderness, the hikes that find you navigating nature as much as thefragmented past and uncertain future.
Ocean Tales, Julien’s second Santpoort album on Friends of Friends,takes another step into his past while artistically leaping forward.Steel-toned kalimba melodies that glint like sunlight on crystallinewaves, poignant piano, resonant bass lines, soulful blues guitar -Julien plays them all to create richer, more layered lo-fi compositionsof hip-hop, electronic, ambient, and blissful psych-pop, accentingmany with chirping birds and recorded sounds from nature. He alsocollaborates with musicians like Canadian electronic duo Tennysonand Sydney songstress Little Green, the dewy-eyed lyrics of everyoneinvolved conveying the inherent longing at the center of Julien’sSantpoort project more powerfully than ever before.