A.r. Kane
Sixty Nine
REMASTERED ROUGH TRADE DEBUT LP LIMITED TO JUST 500 COPIES WITH EMBOSSED OUTER SLEEVE AND ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE ON BLACK VINYL Dream POP, they called it. Given AR Kanes Alex Ayuli once worked for advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, its no surprise that he and collaborator Rudy Tambala invented their own genre before critics could stick their oar in. It was a canny move, but more importantly, it was accurate: the music of AR Kane was made for dreamers, by dreamers, and its languor and longing made it particularly bewitching listening; their music is often smeared and blurry, happily lost in its own indefinable pleasures. "We wanted dream pop," Tambala says, "that feeling of a dream where the rules are different. Dream logic." -UNCUT REISSUE OF THE MONTH