San Francisco’s Part Time, the lo-fi recording project of David Loca, consistently produces some synth-centric shoegaze-y music that fit nicely on those mixtapes music nerds make for their crushes who are much hipper than them in order to appear like a hip enough person to make out with. I didn’t experience the 80s, but this music sounds pretty much like it’s straight from London in 1984. Today, we’re premiering “Fallin’ 4 U,” which is the first single from their upcoming double-album Virgo’s Maze. The record is out on May 19 via—you guessed it—Burger Records, a label that seems to have a monopoly over all music made with guitars these days. The record is a collection of recordings, mostly captured with a tape machine, over the past five years made in LA, San Francisco, and El Paso (that’s in Texas, kids). “Fallin’ 4 U” is a slippery four minutes long, full of washed out repetitive droning that illustrates the emotional need for someone else to help us get through daily bullshit. With about a minute left in the track, the song cuts into what I hear as some samples from cartoons? I don’t know, man. But sometimes it’s the simplest obstacles in life that make us want to curl up in a ball on the couch with Looney Tunes on loop in the background.Stream “Fallin’ 4 U” below, and pre-order Virgo’s Maze here.
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