Balam Acab

***For ALEC KOONE, the 20 year-old, Pennsylvania resident, who was 19 and based in New York at the time of his first release, Wander/Wonder is a coming-of-age album that sees him expand upon the unique sound that attracted him so much attention to begin with. Wander/Wonder is a mysterious and genuinely haunting record that seems to exist in a world all of its own making, balanced between the ecstatic "wonder" referenced in the title and something altogether more indefinable and uncertain of itself, like shards of light flickering through a blanket of fog, and even though Wander/Wonder is undeniably an electronic album, it feels strangely organic, rooted in nature, synthetic textures and distorted voices harmonizing with an ever-present oceanic shimmer. Wander/Wonder was written and produced by Alec Koone in New York and Pennsylvania. Mixed by Alec Koone and SAM HAAR (member of Blondes) in New York City. “Hazy, narcotic gloom-pop culled from looped Internet sound samples. For fans of Animal Collective, Ariel Pink, Salem, witch house, post-chillwave, etc.”—Rough Trade, Album of the Month. Received an 8.2 rating from Pitchfork.