Description:	CD on Stones Throw
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Hip-Hop/Rap
	Label:	Stones Throw
	Price:	£10.09
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...according to our Ant on 25 September 2008.

For those of you that were disappointed with the grim rainy English summertime you can have some sunshine in your life with hazy album of summery hip hop/ pop from Koushik courtesy of Stonesthrow. 'Out My Window' is like The Beach Boys being remixed by Fourtet. Actually having just clocked the press release both of those names are mentioned along with Panda Bear, Caribou, Maps, RJD2. I'd say if you like Beck's recent psychedelic pop direction then this may well appeal to. Fine dreamy stuff.

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What their label says...

Four years after his first release on Stones Throw, the Canadian-bred, Vermont-based artist known as Koushik presents his debut album. For fans of Panda Bear, Caribou, Maps, RJD2 and Four Tet (who released Koushik’s debut single on his Text label), this is reason to celebrate: Koushik makes supremely tuneful, beautifully rickety, hip hop-inflected electronic psych-pop with true crossover appeal. In Koushik’s masterful album, all is lush, hazy and beautiful; this is what Brian Wilson would have sounded like if he were schooled in ProTools and hung out with Beck. Every beat, every chiming chord, every birdcall is carefully planned, and amongst it all drifts Koushik’s unique ethereal vocal. It’s a swirling, reverb-drenched creation, informed by Phil Spector’s wall of sound and coloured by a palette of flutes, harpsichords and mellotrons. Though Koushik’s “backing band” dwells within his SP-303 sampler, it sounds like a dream team of late 60’s LA Wrecking Crew sessioneers and that era’s New York jazz and funk sidemen. In a vastly far-ranging album, ‘Welcome’ bristles with smooth Philly soul, ‘Bright And Shining’ breaks into something like a lost mid-60’s Eurovision entry and the title track ‘Out My Window’ is a dreamy epic.