Hippie Sabotage

One Liner: Chill (mostly) EDM by two brothers.

Wikipedia Genre: EDM (but like, the chill kind)
Home: Sacramento, CA (chill)

Poster Position: 7 (chill)

Both Weekends. (which is very chill)

Thoughts:  My God, they've got so many albums.  Saw that their top track was a remix of a five year old song, and figured that they must just be the kind of group who is doing singles and remixes, but nope, they have freaking seven albums (all since 2014) of EDM-ish tracks.  Terrible album names for their first three (all just generically called Vol. 1, 2, and 3) but great song titles like "The One Who Knocks," "Dancing Ninjas," "The Long and Lonesome Road," "Can't Find Nothing," and others.  Their later albums tend to put a pretty girl on the cover who looks like an ad for J. Crew and, at first, made me think that the group didn't have albums but was just featured on those electronic compilations that put together a bunch of Thievery Corporation copycats and calls the disc something like Ibiza Relaxation.

The group is made up of two brothers - Kevin and Jeff Saurer.  As mentioned above, their top streaming track (by far) is a remix of Tove Lo's "Habits (Stay High)" that has just over 350 million streams.  None of their original music has more than 100 million streams (they top out at 79 million) and most are in the eight figure range.  That 79 million stream one is from the 2016 album Providence, and is called "Devil Eyes."

Like a chillwave rap track.  Most of their stuff comes in that vein - the chillwave electronic.  Here and there you get something more traditionally EDM-ish - 2017's Drifter's opener "Peyote" is a definite glitchy frenzy tune - but the rest of the album is pretty mellow. The top one from that 2017 album is the title track, "Drifter," with 12.4 million streams.

Weird thing - they repeat some songs on their different albums.  Like "Om" is on both 2016's Providence and 2017's Drifter.  Even if they didn't r-release songs, these tracks are so similar that it seems like they're just re-releasing things for sure.  Lots of snaps and bass and sweeping synth sounds.

Until you get to 2014's Vacants, which is much more banger/trap oriented. And not very good.  I'll give you one just to try out, but you should know that the newer, relaxed stuff, is much more pleasurable.  This is "Born to Rise," which has 2.3 million streams.

See what I mean?  More of a traditional hype track to get the kiddies jumping.

I don't see any reason that I'd go see these guys.  I kind of like the chill stuff, but there will probably be someone else at that time who I'd rather go see than this stuff.