If we've become preprogrammed to a large extent to all too often merely hock up scarcely reconfigured regurgitations of meticulously scribed press releases, no such exercise may be applied to
Swiss Alps purely as there's next to no information available. Anywhere. They're to release a four-track EP at some point next month on
Pyramid Lake, while their Bandcamp tags suggest they originate from Pennsylvania and that they're keen on maintaining an outwardly lo-fi aesthetic. From here on however the music's left to do the talking, while we attempt to do the hyping: following on from
the sprightly – if slightly claustrophobic – '80s-lilted introspection of Riptide Lore, Little Dipper is considerably more cute. Sounding somewhere along the meandering lines of lost Hope Of The States material chewed through the homely analogue frequencies of Boards of Canada tapes as Brad Hargett and Johan Duncansson improvise harmonies atop snow-capped dreaminess below, it's a conglomeration of sugary sweetness and all manner of aurally sumptuous things nice that's as wistful as it is warbling.
Swiss Alps' Bandcamp.
