Listen: Bayou – Varsity Jacket

Setting the internet abuzz with his dazzling bedroom RnB/pop brew under the Bayou guise, Double Denim founder and chillwave survivor, Hari Ashurst, is one of 2013′s more successful musical enigmas. Following shimmery, retro synth ballads ‘Cherry Cola’ and ‘Forever Deluxe’ comes another romantic, prom-night paean entitled, ‘Varsity Jacket’.

The lovingly attended piano, funked-up guitar swirls and muffled percussion recall fellow blog obsession, Jai Paul. While Jai’s trembling falsetto comes over slightly disconnected, peeking through a murk thick with effects, Hari’s softly cooed refrain, ‘varsity jacket, they don’t wanna know your name’ drips down the spine like a slowly melting ice-cube: wispy but benevolent and familiarly soothing. ‘Varsity Jacket’ is simply enchanting.