California-based couple Allie Schulz and Alex Pasternak, aka Florecer, have recently relocated to Alex’s childhood community of Half Moon Bay. Dividing their time between raising 2 babies on a beautiful beach and creating new music. Alex has never been a slouch as far as producing tunes is concerned – assuming the aliases Saidera, Highlines, Dr Bronzer, collaborating with Coyote, as well as the Florecer sides – and my understanding is that the pair are currently sitting on a stash of as yet unreleased stuff. The first glimpse we get of the sonic fruits of their move is a song called Breathy Drops, which has been picked up as a single by Chris Coco’s DSPPR. 

Cutting its own rug, regardless of what others might think, this is pop, but oddball and all the better for it. Forgetting / foregoing  formulaic templates, we’re back to that thing of “Balearic” by accident rather than by design. Sure there’s some Spanish guitar here (and damn fine it is too), but the puckered, gently perky, programmed percussion and fractured Fairlight-like vocals have more in common with the irresistible idiosyncrasies of Laura Groves and Bullion, or Laurie Anderson’s Excellent Birds, than anything built by numbers. Similar to ddwy, there’s also a strong William Orbit / Strange Cargo / Torch Song vibe, but this is still unique, and, sticking my neck out, I’d hazard the best thing that Allie and Alex have done to date. 

Florecer’s Breathy Drops can be ordered directly from DSPPR.