When a famed indie-pop mailorder house (Fraction Discs) decides to get into the record label game you assume that they know exactly what they’re doing and that they’ve heard a shitload of pop, so they probably have great taste, and will only put out the best stuff available. Depending on how much you like Tillmann’s new material you may agree or disagree with the above statement.
I find their music off-putting and disorientating. I mean that in a good way though. They use some of the elements of indie pop that we all know and love and subvert them. They do this on the single “Heavy Rotation” by slowing both the music and the vocals to a crawl. At times it seems the song is actually speeding up and then slowing down again or that the tape it was recorded on is warped or something. It’d be easy for the band to play it straight but that they don’t I find refreshing. The video for “New Place” so puts me in a Felt frame of mind that I am practically giddy. Fraction Discs is releasing the debut lp by Gothenberg duo Tillmanns.
And the Tillmann’s first video from A Careless Lifestyle, the song “New Place”: