Hippo Lite
A month spent in an old mill, river swimming, scorpion fear. No wifi. Night sounds, used frogs. Broken music, a crumble, a mysterious place. An album made for each other by one another with no piercing the bubble, the opposite of a typical recording experience. Tim and Cate serve Drinks again!
Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley sound blissfully removed on their second album as a duo, in a quizzical world of their own creation. This one’s best played late at night.
Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley teach us the valuable lesson that weirdness needn’t be conjured under pretense from far out places while the mundanity of real life can prove far more potent.
The first DRINKS album came about when fellow psychedelic travelers Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley bonded while touring and decided it made sense to record together.
Tim Presley and Cate Le Bon should probably stop working together. On their own terms, they're equally brilliant — Presley is the man behind...
Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley are back to serve you more DRINKS. Hippo Lite, the second release from Presley's White Fence side-project, DRINKS, numbs the '60s neo-psychedelia of 2015 debut Hermits on Holiday and instead opts for more discordant instrumenta
Together Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley are DRINKS - their new LP 'Hippo Lite' feels like an undiscovered, surreal obscurity from a bygone era.
'Hippo Lite' by Drinks, album review by Dave MacIntyre. The full-length comes out on April 20th via Drag City.
The second album from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley, recorded in France, is a playful post-punk tonic full of cryptic skronk