Category: Dexter + Franz

While Panoramic Highway draws on a wide array of influences spanning geography and time, it’s anchored by the sounds of Marin County’s coastline, where Dexter+Franz recorded at the Panoramic House. Throughout the album, field recordings and samples of the ocean and beaches seamlessly weave in and out of the songs. Waves crash, seagulls chirp, and synth textures float through the mix like gusts of salty sea breeze. In these moments, Panoramic Highway becomes an elemental experience, rooted in the soundscapes of nature.

Flamingo Heights transcends ambient music and becomes a pastiche of psychedelia, cosmic-country, and French lounge, alternating between what you’d hear drifting on the wind while meditating on a Mojave sunset and what would be piped through the PA speakers of a retro-futuristic vestibule while valeting a rocket ship on some distant planet.