Surf Boundaries
Ghostly Internationa
ELECTRONIC
California-based guitarist CHRISTOPHER WILLITS settles near the shores of pop with 'Surf Boundaries'. On his breakthrough album, Willits merges the patterns of his signature guitar sound with treated strings, brass and five-part vocal harmonies for a sonic vision that draws upon elements of shoegaze, jazz, ambient and joyous noise.
The vocal motif of the aptly titled 'Colors Shifting' (sung by Willits and ULTRA RECORDS' LATRICE BARNETT) appears in three variations, giving the album a rough beginning, middle and end, while other tracks full of electrified drones, intertwining melody lines and smooth guitar loops weave into the album's structure seamlessly.
Named "the center cell of a rather complex indie rock-avant-garde electronic art Venn diagram" by SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY, he proliferates artistic diversity in a unique context.
After known collaborations with KID606, MATMOS, BRAD LANER, TAYLOR DEUPREE and RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, Willits finds a new voice on these recordings.
In the 12 tracks, Willits' view is so broad that anything becomes possible inside his unique vision of organic indie/electronic music.
THE MILK FACTORY "Opulent and comforting...Willits dips his experimental range in breezy California pop to produce a record that sends the Beach Boys into orbit." ... KULTUREFLASH "You could say this could soundtrack seasons in a state-of-flux; a time for transition, change, renewal." ... LOST AT SEA 8.5/10 "Songs full of indie-pop vocal harmony that would bring Sufjan Stevens and his after-school special band to their knees...amazing." ... PITCHFORKMEDIA "one of the best blissed-out dream-pop cuts we've heard this year."
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Clouds From
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Colours Shifting
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Medium Blue
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Love Wind
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Orange Lit Spaces
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Finding Ground
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Saturn
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Green And Gold
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Like Water
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Dive
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Yellow Spring
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The Greatest Rain
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