Bleep

Situating itself among the chillest releases to have been created amid the nationwide lockdowns of 2020 — a time when everyone suddenly became eminently aware of their immediate surroundings in new ways — esteemed producer ELWD’s DANDELION comes off as a dreamy beat tape for lazy Sundays. Part LA beat scene, part experimental odyssey into everyday beauty, cuts like ‘A NEW UNISON’ and ‘THINKING ABOUT MARS’ flip the jubilant void of vaporware into meditative time-warps, bending the passage of minutes to their whim. Meanwhile, takes like ‘WHERE R MY GLASSES’ allot a certain amount of jazz-inflected grooves to reach out and connect the brain to the feet.