Watch: Sugar & Gold - “Salty Seraphim (Live Acoustic Version)”

This video of Sugar & Gold jamming like it’s the late-’60s at Andy Warhol’s Factory is brought to us by The New Gay. In it, a few members of the San Francisco quintent jam out on an acoustic version of “Salty Seraphim,” one of our favorite songs from their latest release, Get Wet!. It’s kinda weird, a little funny, and totally makes us think Sugar & Gold needs to spawn a psychedelic jam band after it finishes touring for the new album.

Sugar & GoldGet Wet!Antenna Farm Records (2010)
Genre: ElectronicRating: B- 
The sophomore LP from San Francisco’s Sugar & Gold, Get Wet!, brings a batch of polished electro-pop dance cuts laden with a proverbial grab-bag of bells and whistles reminiscent of the soundtrack to an all night dance party. S&G runs the gamut of playful electronic tinged melodies. Tracks like “Stay Soft” and “Sneek Freq” throw you into a funk/disco/R&B revival that features the ghost of Lipps, Inc. clashing with the contemporary sounds of Chromeo. “Bodyaches” achieves a Passion Pit vibe—utilizing the common cache of sound effects layered with complex orchestration and pulsating arpeggiators. Though not all is four to the floor and club-ready. “Call Me (Softly)” transports you to a neon cocktail lounge and “Couvade,” with its layered vocals harmonizing with celestial pad synths, definitely lends an Of Montreal-esque pomp.
Get Wet! mirrors the relative singularity in style flexed by the current neo-disco/funk scene. At first listen, it is easy to produce a mental laundry list of the influences and homage in play, both new and old, but in a way, the unabashed attempt at a plastic dance-pop album is Wet!’s selling point. The title, the cover, the predictable sweaty synth lines and octave bass, the hedonistic lyrics, and overall summertime pool party aesthetic are so blatant it all reminds you of the futility in over-criticizing a pop record that begs to not be taken too seriously; that would just make you the party pooper.
-Dave Peterson
Listen:“Stay Soft”


Sugar & Gold on Last.fm

Sugar & Gold
Get Wet!
Antenna Farm Records (2010)

Genre: Electronic
Rating: B- 

The sophomore LP from San Francisco’s Sugar & Gold, Get Wet!, brings a batch of polished electro-pop dance cuts laden with a proverbial grab-bag of bells and whistles reminiscent of the soundtrack to an all night dance party. S&G runs the gamut of playful electronic tinged melodies. Tracks like “Stay Soft” and “Sneek Freq” throw you into a funk/disco/R&B revival that features the ghost of Lipps, Inc. clashing with the contemporary sounds of Chromeo. “Bodyaches” achieves a Passion Pit vibe—utilizing the common cache of sound effects layered with complex orchestration and pulsating arpeggiators. Though not all is four to the floor and club-ready. “Call Me (Softly)” transports you to a neon cocktail lounge and “Couvade,” with its layered vocals harmonizing with celestial pad synths, definitely lends an Of Montreal-esque pomp.

Get Wet! mirrors the relative singularity in style flexed by the current neo-disco/funk scene. At first listen, it is easy to produce a mental laundry list of the influences and homage in play, both new and old, but in a way, the unabashed attempt at a plastic dance-pop album is Wet!’s selling point. The title, the cover, the predictable sweaty synth lines and octave bass, the hedonistic lyrics, and overall summertime pool party aesthetic are so blatant it all reminds you of the futility in over-criticizing a pop record that begs to not be taken too seriously; that would just make you the party pooper.

-Dave Peterson

Listen:
“Stay Soft”

Sugar & Gold on Last.fm

Watch: Sugar & Gold - “Salty Seraphim (Live Acoustic Version)”

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