Song Recommendation: “A Memory” by CV Vision (2025)

CV Vision’s recent album, Release the Beast is a head-spinning ride through half a dozen different genres and styles with maybe the only throughline being the imperative to just, like, “keep it chill, man.” The record starts with a Bibio-adjacent wobbly guitar melody, laughing vocal snippet samples and a loping beat that contains shades of the fabled Land of the Loops. But the very next track veers into sunny 60’s vocal-lead psychedelia, only to be followed by a woozy dubbed out cut that wraps itself around dial-tone samples. And the record continues in this hazy toggle between interrelated but still disparate sounds with every track until we come to “A Memory” which falls into the psychedelia side of things but carries itself with such immaculate shag-carpet swagger that it can’t help but be a standout in a record of ear-catching tunes.