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8/19/2019

Paul A Rosales – Wonder Wheel II (2018)




  • Chillwave 
  • Indie pop 
  • Alternative pop 
  • Lo-fi 
  • Singer-songwriter 
  • DIY 
  • Hypnagogic pop

Comment: Paul A Rosales is a multi-instrumentalist from California, USA who has issued a thread of releases under the pseudonym Wonder Wheel. My first meeting with his music did happen sometime 10 years ago due to a single release on French imprint Beko DSL. The single was an excellent example of a bit blackened cinematic shoegaze obviously influenced by the likes of Joy Division, and Siouxsie & The Banshees. This bunch of 6 tracks is an outtake from the years 2008-2011 (although recorded a few years later). Fortunately one cannot hear exactly the same sonic example of the Beko DSL single instead of it the whole is more DIY-oriented and creates rather a chain between Ariel Pink bedroom magic and hypnagogic and chillwave music. Anyway, the attitude of the releases is the same and a beatific bliss from the beginning of the 10s is guaranteed.