{"id":11882,"date":"2014-06-09T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=11882"},"modified":"2014-06-29T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T01:49:11","slug":"introducing-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/introducing-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing… Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Las Coleccionistas<\/p><\/div>\n

Cristina Checa and Eloi Caball\u00c3\u00a9, performing as Desert<\/a><\/strong>, are from Barcelona, Spain. They’ve just released their first EP, Envalira<\/a><\/strong> (on Minty Fresh<\/a><\/strong>\/Buenritmo<\/a><\/strong>), and already there’s a lot of buzz about them. Their first two songs, “Camins” and “Desert,” garnered a pile of blog reviews, comparisons to Cocteau Twins<\/a><\/strong> and Catalan folk songwriter Maria Del Mar Bonet<\/a><\/strong> and a series of remixes from such notable Spanish DJs as Aster, Marc Pi\u00c3\u00b1ol, Lasers and Afika Pseudobruitisimus. But never mind about all that. Their music is dreamy, hypnotic, ethereal and to my ears, surprisingly warm sounding for, well, electronic music. Put it this way: it’s damned pretty. Incidentally, “Envalira” is made up from two Catalan verbs “embadalir” (to spellbind) and “delirar” (to be delirious). Nice touch.<\/p>\n