SOTD #109 // unouomedude: 'Island Summer'

Technology has made it easy for anyone who pours time and effort in to make a half decent tune, regardless of technical skill. It’d be easy to argue that the whole rise of chillwave has been a product of this phenomenon – unemployed teens ploughing time into home producing alright sounding tracks on their parent-funded Macs. But sounding anywhere close to seminal is still something exclusive only to a select few. Of all the acts currently buzzing around the internet, unouomedude is one of the few that can genuinely lay claim to being part of the latter.

The name only means anything to a couple of thousand people, and even less can pronounce it properly, but unouomedude (or you-know-you-owe-me-dude) is the project of a 19 year old from Jacksonville, Florida. Despite still being a teenager, he’s producing some of the best new music around at the minute, as his recently released Marsh EP illustrates in all its shimmering, glo-fi glory. Not a second is wasted, with the 16 minutes of the release flying by with a shimmering beauty, an utterly fresh entry in an already crowded genre.

Second track ‘Island Summer’ is the crowning glory, however – the kind of track that keeps you up at night, wishing it was you had written it. Bright and airy, it transports you to a dream world of happiness, faded memories and the kind of sugary sweet love that only happens in celluloid. It’s a song that you get lost in, another world to let wash over you, vivid and all encompassing. It’s one of those songs where having it on repeat scarcely feels enough, several hours hearing nothing but it’s 3 minutes and 21 seconds only leaving you wanting more.

unouomedude: ‘Island Summer’

The Marsh EP is available to download for free via unouomedude’s bandcamp page.