The cover looks like a poster for a seventies B-movie, and the sound is also inspired by one: this completely slowed-down instrumental music would be perfect for one of those films which finds a thousand reasons why a group of women should frolic around in bikinis all the time on an island. The music, however, is for the scenes in between: the moments spent hanging out under palm trees with no discernible cerebral excitement. The Sweet Enoughs’ »Marshmallow« is downbeat from down under, with the big lull, windy synths and drippy percussion. The Australian combo rose to relative fame via Spotify playlists made for afternoons spent swinging in a hammock. They are a bit like a weaving version of Khruangbin, a feeling of well-being without a racing pulse, an afternoon that lasts forever, a nap on the beach. All of which makes you feel that, ultimately, none of this was really meant very seriously. Someone was just having fun making an easy listening record and laughingly set all the controls to MAXIMUM CHILL MODE.
Marshmallow
