Daily Edit | May 20

Play Time is the Hudson Valley-based trio of percussionist Booker Stardrum (SML, Photay, Lisel, Wendy Eisenberg, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma), saxophonist Will Epstein (Nicolás Jaar, Photay, DARKSIDE, Dave Harrington), and synth player Ben Vida (Marina Rosenfeld, YarnWire, Lea Bertucci, Tyondai Braxton). 

Our first preview of Magic Object is opening track "Open The Door, Joey," and, yes, the niceness. Let it flow. The combination of the ambling Moog/drums groove and the droning sax here is hypnotic. It sounds like the essence of beauty finding some form between the spiritual and physical — breathing, flickering floating, moving along at its own leisurely pace. Yet despite inhabiting that liminal organic/electronic state, it never ceases to sound like the work of three musicians in a mind meld, playing together as a unit. "You’re hearing us discover the voice of the band in real time," Vida says. "We finished those sessions and we were like, 'Oh, that’s what our band sounds like now.'" -Stereogum

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