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You’ve got to have some kind of confidence if you’re going to make a song 7 minutes long and have pretty much anything happen in it – and you’ve got to have some talent to pull it off. Saskatchewan go for the dream pop that thousands of their contemporaries have groped at but rarely manage to sustain, trickling to near the ten minute marking without a care in the world on Nice Daze, the title track of their debut release. Their debut 7” however, fulfils all of the necessary criteria – it lolls about with the occasional bubble, it’s utterly filled with hazy melody and sees the conventions of normal pop music almost as irrelevant.

Despite taking their name from an area in Canada, the band hail from the sunny climes of Orlando, Florida, something undoubtedly reflected in their work. The five-piece deal in aching, swaying melodies, a kind of listless longing putting whatever little drive the quintet have into the songs, prickling along on waves of fuzzed out bliss. It’s fair to say that the blockbuster success during 2010 of Beach House, Wapaint and their ilk obviously informs the work, but this could just as easily be a decent world music CD being played at half speed.

The two tracks that make up their 7” are the kind of creations that could exist in the zero-gravity world of the music blog, and gloriously so. It’s the kind of thing your mum would describe as white noise, . But what a world to get trapped in, a half forgotten memory turned into noise, the kind of thing a million Michel Gondry wannabes will use to soundtrack their efforts - Which, to be honest, sounds like a beautiful and fitting legacy.