Pitchfork Likes MillionYoung's New EP, Issued by Knoxville Label

In her feature last week on the Florida chillwave producer MillionYoung, aka Mike Diaz, who's working with the Knoxville-based music label Arcade Sound Ltd., Carey Hodges attributed much of Diaz's burgeoning success to the attention of Pitchfork. The website reviewed Diaz' self-released MillionYoung album, Sunndreamm, last year, and described it as "exactly what chillwave produced a stone's throw from South Beach ought to sound like."

Today Zach Kelly gives Diaz's Arcade Sound debut, the EP Be So True, a 7.6. Kelly writes:

"The music here sounds more synthetic than most current bedroom electronic projects, and Diaz reconfigures aqueous tones with an impressive array of rhythmic accents to give his productions momentum. But it's Diaz's vocals that lend a much-needed organic element. Though it's sometimes difficult to locate exactly what Diaz might be saying, since he often chops and pitch-shifts his already distant-sounding voice much like Washed Out's Ernest Greene does, lyrical sentiments take a backseat as his words melt into the lushness of his productions, often evoking a mood or emotion with a simple vocal intonation."