Various Artists - Unrivaled Groove 1 (Various Artists)

Various Artists - Unrivaled Groove 1 (Various Artists)

and debut release

Igor & Romeo started experimenting with genre-bending music

Taking his name from the mashing together of smerza - a Neapolitan world meaning "twisted" or "lefthanded" - and hertz - a unit to measure sonic frequencies - Smhertz specializes in off-kilter downtempo with a strong focus on creative digital manipulation and found sounds

" the three Wilson brothers - Brian

The album features vocals from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist Karen O

and self-reflection with unfiltered vulnerability

both of whom have also remixed Blue Note tracks

Jack Antonoff

The band locked themselves away for two years in the attic of an old house in Toulouse

and various subsectors of the experimental in such freewheeling and raucous fashion that the very idea of divvying them up into disparate inspirations seems laughable

They manage to sound unhurried and patient

Yuko first recorded this melody in 2014 for her album My Life