{"id":803321,"date":"2020-01-22T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=941082"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:10:12","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-poolside-and-amo-amo-around-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-poolside-and-amo-amo-around-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Poolside and Amo Amo, \u2018Around the Sun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Poolside.LowSeasonPressPhoto.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Poolside and Amo Amo\u2019s new single lands somewhere between cry-for-help and carefree jaunt.<\/p>\n<p>The musical bed underpinning \u201cAround the Sun\u201d is tailor-made for <a href=\"http:\/\/tooslowtodisco.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Too Slow to Disco parties<\/a> \u2014 a cozy, unhurried bass line, shimmering motifs from several synthesizers, multi-tracked vocal harmonies high on the scale. Think of a Venn diagram containing Delegation\u2019s \u201cOh Honey,\u201d Fleetwood Mac\u2019s \u201cEverywhere,\u201d late Seventies Isley Brothers, and late Eighties Prefab Sprout, and you\u2019ll end up in the vicinity of this collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>If the music is a refreshing swim on a summer night, the lyrics betray far more anxiety: \u201cLaying back at the end of the day\/Got nobody to tell I\u2019m ok,\u201d founder Jeffrey Paradise sings. \u201cPeople say that I lost my mind\/I\u2019ve got nothing to lose and nothing to find\/They might say I\u2019m the losing kind, but that\u2019s fine.\u201d The narrator comes to a wobbly conclusion, seemingly hoping to convince himself that all is well \u2014 \u201cAnother year around the sun, guess I\u2019ve just been having fun.\u201d Thanks to all the pretty production and a music video full of smiling blondes on jet skis, this will quickly be adopted as a gentle party-starter, though it\u2019s far more ambivalent than it pretends to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround the Sun\u201d will appear next month on <em>Low Season<\/em>, Poolside\u2019s first new album since 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/4z2ebTTKukc34eMDlqrnW4?si=mwZhc_Q_TeeZkOYCOwBiXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Spotify.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/poolside-amo-amo-around-the-sun-941082\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poolside and Amo Amo\u2019s new single lands somewhere between cry-for-help and carefree jaunt. The musical bed underpinning \u201cAround the Sun\u201d is tailor-made for Too Slow to Disco parties \u2014 a cozy, unhurried bass line, shimmering motifs from several synthesizers, multi-tracked vocal harmonies high on the scale. Think of a Venn diagram containing Delegation\u2019s \u201cOh Honey,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 01:52:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}