Kevin Bronson on November 2nd, 2014

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At the helm of the indie quartet Blonde Summer, Chris Pope has released three EPs of distinctly Californian, guitar-tastic (and, we might add, criminally overlooked) rock as Blonde Summer. Pope’s side project Solai, realized in his Silver Lake apartment, has a West Coast feel too – the sun- and synth-drenched nostalgia that permeates a lot of current electronic music. “Islands in the Sun” has nothing to do with the Weezer track, but buried deep in its reverb are the lazy, hazy remnants of summer. The self-titled “Solai” EP came out Sept. 30.

||| Stream: “Islands in the Sun”