Atlantic/Pacific Makes MAGNET A Mix Tape

It’s a big week for Brooklyn’s Atlantic/Pacific. The quartet’s debut album, Meet Your New Love, was just issued by No Sleep Records, and it’s already gaining praise for its soothing, layered guitar lines and distant vocals. The band’s record-release show takes place tonight at the Bell House in New York City, right before it kicks off its first-ever U.S. tour. Plus, band founders Garrett Klahn (of Texas Is The Reason) and John Herguth (of House & Parish) just gained major cool points with this awesome mix tape they made for MAGNET.

“Patterns” (download):
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/Patterns.mp3

The Bees “Silver Line”
Garrett: New-ish single from their latest, Every Step’s A Yes. I simply can’t get enough of these guys. It’s killing me that they have yet to make it to the states. They’re currently on album number four, and it’s all amazing. Not a lot of press around them, but the people who know fucking know! I love that they seem to be this magical bunch of boys living on the Isle Of Wight, making this wonderful racket, not seeming to give a shit about anything but the music. They’re still kind of a secret. It won’t be long, though. Video

LCD Soundsystem “Get Innocuous”
John: In all honestly, I love all records James Murphy does. Plus he’s from New Jersey, plus he worked at City Gardens, which was my favorite club of all time. This track is beyond great. Album opener that builds into a whirlwind. Saw it recently live and was just as good. From what I know, the new one is the last one, but I guess we’ll see. Video

The Verve “Life’s An Ocean”
Garrett: In my opinion one of the last great modern-day blues records, Northern Soul just slayed me when it came out. Legend has it that it was recorded live exclusively during all night session fueled by E’s, walkouts, paranoia, etc., and it sounds likes it. I feel like they kinda lost the plot after this album, but there was nothing else out there like it at the time. So far removed from whatever they were calling Britpop back then. It’s a deep, heavy and sometimes haunting record. Video

The Cure Disintegration
John: When asked the question of favorite album of all time, this one is definitely the one for me. This record has more or less shaped the way I tend to write music. When I first got Disintegration, I remember blasting it almost loud enough to shatter the windows and feeling like my bed was in the middle of the ocean. Video

Seam “Bunch”
Garrett: First time I heard The Problem With Me was via a girlfriend around ’92 or ’93. “Bunch” was the first song she played me. It instantly hit me and has stayed with me ever since. A few years later I had moved to NYC and we had just started to put together what would become Texas Is The Reason. Seam were playing at the Mercury Lounge, but it was a 21+ show and I was not yet of age. I remember standing in the middle of Houston Street watching them though the window. Never got the chance to see them again. That record and their sound ultimately had a huge influence on TITR. I’ve never stopped listening. Video

Depeche Mode “Policy Of Truth”
John: Summer of 1990, nonstop rotation in my car tapedeck. Was at the forefront my “great awakening” to music other than punk rock. Hard to skateboard to, but driving to and from whatever spots we were headed, it was perfect. Something about Violator and Music For The Masses really resonated in my mind. The guitars slipped beautifully in and around all the synths and programming, and I think these were the first songs that really broke through all the ’80s damage of shitty sounds and shitty recordings for electronicish music. Sorry 2010, I know that’s not cool to say. Video

Dinosaur Jr “What Else Is New”
Garrett: Another record that really hit me at a young age and has stuck with me through the years. Where You Been is a pretty serious record, but this song especially just blew my mind, not to mention the tail end of it. When those drums come in it kills me every time! I was probably 18 or 19 when it came out, ripe with teenage angst and in love every other five minutes, so it was like my little internal theme song. “He’s singin’ about me, maaan.” I clearly remember at the time reading in an old Melody Maker that J was really inspired by Neil Young, and you can really hear it on this track. Video

Jane’s Addiction “Classic Girl”
John: Regardless of where my tastes go, this is another that will always stick with me. So many memories come back to this song, this band, this album. They surfed, they had blue hair, and they wrote some of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. I watched Soul Kiss beginning to end every day for months. Probably one of my favorite live experiences ever as well. Even two years ago, saw them again with the original lineup and was immediately transported back to that time and place. Video

Chapterhouse “Mesmerise”
Garrett: This EP was a huge hit with me and my friends back in the early ’90s. The record that came out before, Whirlpool, was amazing, but this was next-level stuff for us. I remember having a VHS tape of all the best videos 120 Minutes used to play, and this track was always a pleaser. Just perfect, dreamy British pop. As much as I adored them (and still do), I was over the initial shock and awe of the Smiths, the Bunnymen and the La’s and was looking for something a little more “out there.” Chapterhouse led me in the direction of the other great shoegaze bands that we all know and still love. Video

Underworld “Two Months Off”
John: I got into Underworld pre-Trainspotting. The first record post-weird synth pop came in to our college radio station and I grabbed it by mistake. Ended up getting hooked. “Skyscraper I Love You” was my first introduction, and they’ve had a certifiable super jam on every album since. Underworld take rock ‘n’ roll structure and apply it to electronic music. It’s pop, it’s heavy, and they’ve yet to miss. Great live experience as well. Video