Try Me

VINYL FORMAT. Tracks: "Try Me" b/w "Above Your Head." Handmade sleeves are designed by Akroe (each one unique) - numbered and limited! When Frederic Riviere says something along the lines of "the sun and the sea are really important to me," it's easy to think, "Oh great, another chillwave artist who enjoys long walks on the beach and sitting on the dock of the bay all day." If only things were that simple. While he's certainly into laser-guided synth lines and sepia-toned nostalgia trips, Anoraak (Riviere) is more indebted to Italo disco, Motown-schooled funk and sepia-toned pop music (think: M83 on Ecstasy) than anything that's lo-or-glo-fi. Which makes sense. After all, it's not like the French producer/singer/multi-instrumentalist picked up his first battery-powered keyboard yesterday; Anoraak began as a bedroom-based project about eight years ago.