Kevin Bronson on October 6th, 2016

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The music of Isle & Fever is said to originate in a basement in Echo Park. Can’t wait to see this place, as the L.A. duo’s three singles conjure up images of swimming pools, summer breezes and fully stocked bars manned by compliant, well-coiffed servers. If it’s good vibes you seek, follow along, because the duo of Donald Eley and Craig Robert “Tiger” Smith are pointing the way to synth-coated, retro-funky bliss. Eley and Smith made music — very different music — when they played together in Black& (Black Sand) and the Sea of Cortez, but here they’ve taken 1970s-80s cocktails and spiked them with production of new (nu-), more chill disco. Songs for those dances you do while holding your drink. Without spilling.

||| Stream: “Keep On”

||| Also: Check out “Far Away” and “Dime Piece”