New band of the day – No 1,148: Work Drugs

If you like the hypnagogic soft rock of Ariel Pink and glo-fi slow jams of Washed Out, this will be right up your alleyHometown: Philadelphia.The lineup: Benjamin Louisiana (more instrumental/less vocal) and Thomas Crystal (more vocal/less instrumental).The background: Today's new band is a recommendation from a reader who wrote and told us that they – Work Drugs – were purveyors of something called "smooth-fi", which he further described as a blend of chillwave and yacht rock, "where the Fl...

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