Hysterical Love Project: Lashes LP

Hysterical Love Project’s modern dreampop classic finally comes to vinyl after appearing on numerous EOY lists in 2023, gliding with a shimmer of trip hop and shoegaze downstrokes you should consider essential listening if yr into a.s.o.’s standout debut, or classics from HTRK, Dubstar, Ulla.

Pairing Kiwi producer Ike Zwanikken with vocalist Brooklyn Mellar, Hysterical Love Project muddle the foggy memory banks of early ‘90s Trip Hop with prompts from Balearic downbeats and canny production techniques that lend it a patina of micro-dosed psychedelic sensuality.

Perfectly strung out on a late night tip, it flows from the bed-ways lullaby pop and back-combed partials of ‘Miracle-Mouthed’ to the beautifully out-of-reach gauze of ‘Cement’ via delectable highlights of ‘90s trip-pop in the slow-motion acidic lather and forlorn vox of ‘Ionian Sea’, and dreamily headlong wind-tunnel motion of ‘Boyracer’. ‘Come 2 Me, My Baby’ and ’Sever/Strike’ are unmistakably redolent of HTRK, while the weightless strum of ‘Lavender’ demonstrates just how completely they can transfix without the beats.

Already a cult classic, you know what to do ✨