The Nazca lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located, of course, in the Nazca desert of Southern Peru, and it is believed have been present there since their suspected creation between 400 and 650AD. Spread throughout the area, there are hundreds of individual figures; some representing Paracas motifs, and others resembling monkeys, spiders, sharks, killer whales, lizards, and more.
Nzca/Lines is the solo project of Michael Lovett, former bassist and backing vocalist of Your Twenties many moons ago. How the Nazca Lines, and Nzca/Lines relate, only the ancients and Michael Lovett will ever know. Lo Recordings would that have it though that;
In the same way that the great Nazca Lines of Peru from which NZCA LINES take their name, can only be perceived from high above, so the music of NZCA LINES can only be taken in gradually, such is its scope and depth. Think of it as a musical teleportation system beaming sounds and vibrations from different eras into the present whilst at the same time projecting them into the future.
Which is indeed one way to put it. Anyhow, Nzca/Lines have been quiet on the musical front since around 2012, since in fact the release of his debut album Compass Points. Our SINGLE OF THE WEEK though sees Lovett coming back in force, and armed with the perfectly produced, and perfectly crafted pop that is ‘New Atmosphere’. The space age atmospheres of indietronica, the shining, synths and pulsing rhythms of 80s bass and sequencers working alongside the kind of sunshine percussion that works its way along the horizon at sunset like an electrocardiogram.
Colour the top of that with Lovett’s falsetto, and this ‘New Atmosphere’ bleeds cocktails on the beach somewhere at sunset, the terraces of the sleekest, chicest New York or LA nightclub, or the lowlights of ‘one of those’ house parties. In short, it’s a brilliant slice of smoothly cold yet warm electronica/R&B crossover predicting something slick this way comes.
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