Pirate! Playground

“No need to adjust your specs; that’s indeed Tricky behind the curtain on this Antlers track. How did this wonderful yet baffling team-up happen, you ask? Like all collabos, of course: the band was chilling backstage in Lisbon when they became entirely flummoxed with a Portuguese coffee press. Sensing that chill people were in need of chill help, out of the ether appeared the legendary dark-pop king, likely bathing the room in a deep red glow. He fiddled with the offending machine and then later fiddled with the non-offending “Crest,” massaging it into a drippy, global-beated swoonfest studded with a hoarse spoken word backdrop, too good for words. Download it for free, and then shell out a few for The Antlers’ latest, right here.” - BY HILLARY KAYLOR, RCRD LBL