The Portuguese duo of André Abel and Joana da Conceição have given us something new to listen to courtesy of the TRILOGY TAPES label. VIDA is the name of the new-ish 4 song-er and it finds TROPA MACACA at their meandering, fantastical best. You don’t get to put out records on SILTBREEZE if you don’t mean it, and this pair has, so…

Guitar teeters on the verge of a nervous breakdown, vibraphone (I think) laps lushly at the halo of your ears, electronics fizz, assisting but never resisting the flow of the lazy river that runs through tracks like “Pelos Olhos De Osíris,” which is my favorite of these 4. Listening is like staring into the great blue above, aimlessly, clouds drifting, birds chirping, chemtrails barely billowing in the minds of conspiracy theorists everywhere. I follow this band wherever they go.