Pitchfork

The UK's A Mountain of One and Sweden's Studio both make beat-oriented music you could listen to while dreaming on a beach. For this they've been (basically accurately) tagged as "Balearic revival," after the mellow ambient style spun on the Balearic isle of Ibiza back in the raving 1980s. A Mountain of One's original "Brown Piano", found on both 12" and the Collected Works compilation, is a sweeping shoreline of distant piano, Spanish-tinged guitar, and, eventually, druggy Pink Floyd space-rock-- just the thing to put on after Mike Simonetti's "Balearic Sabbath" mix, between bong tokes or Bloody Marys. On the B-side of the 12", Studio's dubby "remake" goes the cosmic disco route, downplaying the piano and cutting out the trippy vox in favor of hypnotic guitar loops and a beat that's got one foot in Cologne, Germany, and another in Jamaica. Biggest potential downside (other than a pulled groin muscle): sunburn.