Laundromat appeared in late 2019, a fully formed universe of crafted minimalism and innovative, melodic lo-fi. Across their trilogy of EPs - Red, Green and Blue - you’re just as likely to hear a warped hip-hop beat as a phone-left-off-the-hook electronic burble or a deranged early John Frusciante guitar line. Somehow Toby Hayes, the man behind Laundromat, manages to fit it all together.
With songs like Humans, Bureau de Fatigue and Flat Planet, Laundromat handles both life’s minutiae and big questions with lyrics at once dry and colourful, expansive and detailed. It’s also music covertly possessed of a kind of dry wit or an existential shrug, hinting at life’s inanity with pops of colour and absurdist estrangement; “dumb as a lolly pop, twisting in a parking lot, round and round…
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BN1 (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2021