Connan Mockasin: Forever Dolphin Love (Colored Vinyl) Vinyl LP Connan Mockasin

“Welcome, folks, to the delightful, slanted and enchanted world of Connan Mockasin. Like David Lynch’s willfully surrealist take on American suburbia, or Richard Prince’s paintings investigating modern cultural tropes, the New Zealand-born, current London resident Mockasin makes beautiful music which subverts as it compels, challenges as it mesmerizes, startles as it seduces. A strong case can most certainly be made for Connan to be a true pop auteur, taking his rightful place in a proud lineage which includes past mavericks such as Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, right through to cult figures like Ariel Pink, Sufjan Stevens and John Maus. Written from start to finish one hot summer, while camped outside his parent’s church-like house in a tent, Forever Dolphin Love is an LP which brims with the beauty and solitude of summer evenings, a miasma of psychedelic tangents, jazz interludes and echoing guitars which hum with a distant, haunting resonance. For apart from being one of the most singular musicians we currently have, he is also a brilliant and unusual painter, a gift which will be glimpsed for the first time with this album. Connan’s talents also include recording, producing and mixing the entire record. It was this brilliantly ingenious approach to invention, and his masterfully unique charm that caught the attention of Erol Alkan, who signed Connan to his label Phantasy and released his first output.” – Phantasy Sound

• self-produced 2010 debut full-length from New Zealand psychedelic pop auteur Connan Mockasin
• clear splatter colored vinyl
• limited edition
• music label: Phantasy Sound 2021