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West Coast
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Studio
ReleaseProduct
West Coast
Label
Ghostly International
Catalogue Number
GI437DIGITAL
Release Date
January 24, 2025

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Press Release

Some called Studio, the project of Swedish musicians Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, “the missing link between The Cure and Lindstrøm,” Pitchfork heard Durutti Column and Can, as the duo’s story became swept up in a loosely developing scene — adjacent first to the label Service (Jens Lekman, The Whitest Boy Alive) and later Sincerely Yours (The Tough Alliance, jj) — and a precursor to the 2010s boom at the axis of electronic and psychedelic music guided by indie greats like Caribou, Four Tet, and Darkside.

West Coast, their seminal 2006 debut, captured a faraway romanticism of Balearic brushed up against Krautrock, disco, dub, and afrobeat, with pop lyricism lifted from new wave, all made modern by two art school grads in Gothenburg. First pressed in a small vinyl-only run via their own Information label, the album has been notably absent from most streaming services, and the internet’s record of its initial impact is all but fossilized from a bygone blog era, while its sound is simply untraceable to any one moment in music.

Outside of three 7” releases, they’d keep the music to themselves for several more years. In 2005, Hägg remembers, “We got our degrees and were kicked out of our studio spaces so all these recordings were just piled up. A year later we dusted them off and started to deconstruct and assemble them in a more drawn-out fashion.” In the same breadth, they cite DJ Screw, J Dilla, and Joy Division, along with early ‘80s European live DJ sets from the likes of Beppe Loda, Dj Mozart, and Baldelli as reference points. “The anything-goes mentality was very encouraging and was a big cornerstone to the Studio sound,” says Hägg. “But there’s so much more to the picture, we were not that young then and had lots of musical baggage in our suitcases, the new thing was that we finally let it all come through, not bound by any borders that was often the case with music identity in Sweden during the 90s.”

In the afterglow of the record’s 2007 reception, Studio receded from view, clouded behind a mountain of remix requests (including one for Kylie Minogue that saw release) and label bureaucracy. “It’s easy to wish we would have done some proper recordings of our own instead,” Hägg reflects. But both artists, now well into respective careers beyond Studio, have come to peace with West Coast as their most enduring effort together. Lissvik adds, “It serves as a good reminder for me to keep to that decision and promise and to continue exploring and growing.

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Digital Tracklist

Disc 1

  1. 1 Out There 15:58
  2. 2 West Side 7:05
  3. 3 Origin 5:32
  4. 4 Life's A Beach! 12:53
  5. 5 Self Service 6:48
  6. 6 Indo 9:29

Disc 2

  1. 1 West Side Lullaby (CDr Version) 4:22
  2. 2 Life's A Beach! (CDr Version) 6:38
  3. 3 Indo (CDr Version) 4:19
  4. 4 Self Service (Yearbook Edit) 4:12
  5. 5 West Side Part 1 4:35
  6. 6 West Side Part 2 4:22

Physical formats track list

  1. Out There
  2. West Coast 03.Origin
  3. Life’s A Beach!
  4. Self Service
  5. Indo
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