It was sometime during the second hundredth summer of Brooklyn that we first came across Violens. The early Beach Boys-in-meltdown demo ‘Sensation Descends’ was way out of kilter with what anyone else was (and is) pursuing, an unashamedly perky psychedelic pop dispatch postmarked for summertime.

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Their latest is more of them same, Zombies-via-Prefab Sprout jangle with a dash of Grizzly Bear harmonising, and this remix sees the track taken down the rabbit hole by NY scene patron saints and lovers of kaftans MGMT.

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