We certainly don’t want to overuse our modicum of music-appropriate adjectives here, but we can’t help but call this song from Texan producer Spencer Stephenson blissed-out. Our first introduction to Stephenson’s Botany project (he used to be called Abacus) is the ecstatic “Waterparker”—a lush and vibrant number immediately bringing to mind the sounds of Bibio and Air France. The song begins with a chopped-up and hollow sample that builds to a climax before releasing the flourish of harps, bells, chimes, and drums in front of its densely ambient backdrop. Like his equally blissed-out peers, Botany has a love for rhythms that’ll send you running through a grassy field, but its the uplifting melodies and twinkling sounds that garner him that certain descriptor. (via Pitchfork)

Waterparker