From the Mailbox 66

Jake Back – keep it simple/rytm start New music from Jake Back, the LA-based artist I covered a few months ago. I hesitate to call these two new ones from Back ‘outsider house’ — partly because the term was always reductive, but also because these are really more in the world of ‘lofi house’ with their shared focus on bleached chords, romantic vocals bits, and comparatively clean drums. But I have a hard time using that term either; don’t get me wrong, I do love when sound gets distressed and weathered, but lofi feels too ambiguous at this point. So we can’t call it outsider, we can’t call it lofi–let’s just describe it: both of these are warm, well-composed, and supremely pleasant. Maybe that just makes them effective house tunes in the grand old tradition. Grab these on bandcamp or find them for streaming all over. Jake Back – “keep it simple” Jake Back & Sabbia – “rytm start” Zach from sales – Want u back Speaking of good house music, we’re blessed by yet another new one from Dutch…