Released last year, but new to us (because unfortunately we’ve been hibernating) – MIYNT’s Stay on Your Mind album brings together breathy, dreamy, trip-hop vocals and 60s French disco backing band riffs with an overall atmosphere of David Lynch’s Lost Highway.
At times, like in the track “Peaches” it almost feels like the vibraphone version of Air’s “Playground Love.”
“Vacation with Bond in South of France Part 2” leans heavy into the 60s French disco and funk mood.
Then in tracks like “Lucy in Disguise,” MIYNT sounds like she’s hijacked The Sundays in 1990 or Touch of Oliver’s “Candy Bottle Green” in 1993 while oozing a Serge Gainsbourg muse’s voice.
In the tracks “Subway Madness” and “Stay on Your Mind,” MIYNT finishes with more of a mournful Lana Del Rey sound but if, just like in “Lucy in Disguise,” she emulated Francoise Hardy on a cafe racer rather than 1970s cocaine depression.
MIYNT travels across a few eras of music to build a coherent mood across the album – leaving you with a light craving for a cigarette in the still night air.