Amor De Días – Late Mornings
I’m not sure exactly how I missed this one when it came out in May, I can only blame a particularly stressful finals grading season, but thankfully it found its way into my hands very recently. Amor de Días is a new project featuring Alasdair MacLean of the Clientele and Lupe Núñez-Hernández of Pipas. Those two bands share a love of 60s style but they’ve kicked things up a notch with this project, which is at it’s best when the musicians focus their talent on producing the kind of lush soundscapes that would befit a group named “Love of Days.” The experience of listening to the record evokes a Sunday summer afternoon perfectly, hazy, lazy and dreamy in all the best possible ways. Though all of the song titles are in English, Núñez-Hernández unexpectedly sings several songs in Castellano spanish, and the particular phrasing of that language adds an even breezier quality to this music, particularly on the opener “Foxes” and on my favorite track, the more uptempo but no less lovely, “Late Mornings.”