New Yorker Stout Cortez needs to release more music. That’s all there is to it. This bombastic chillwave jam from earlier this year hearkens back to the early days when Animal Collective and their “My Girls” destroyed indie rock with their synth-heavy noise and psychedelia, giving birth to a while slew of imitators. Vocal chants and an atypical time signature (à la Gauntlet Hair) fiercely punctuate raving synth leads seemingly taken right out of a Cold Cave tune. The most surprising thing about “Berliner” is that it’s a one-off single, the sole offering populating a desolate Bandcamp page. The indie rock sensibilities and the clean production in the track juxtapose quite nicely with the intentional peaking and reverb and the messy, almost primitive vibe. The triumphant mammalian choir in “Berliner” makes the track what it is: an anthemic indietronic single along the lines of chillwave’s early vanguards, and it desperately needs further exposure. Do tha right thing, and grab a free MP3 download of Stout Cortez’s “Berliner” above, and be sure to do whatever is in your collective power to convince Justin Hunter Scott to create more legit bangers. We’re officially crowdsourcing this shit.
