Lê Almeida’s improvisational indie rock troupe Oruã had been making fine records for years before their debut for K, 2025’s Slacker. In fact, their earlier work impressed Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch so much that he asked most of Oruã to join his group and together they made one of the best BTS albums, 2022’s When the Wind Forgets Your Name. Slacker gives the uninitiated plenty of clues why Martsch was so enamored; the album is made up of long songs that unspool at languid paces and are just barely moored by swirling guitar lines, hazy melodies, and a crack rhythm section that pushes and pulls on the underpinnings like it was so much taffy. Almeida sings in a similar drawl too, delivering the words in a plaintive fashion that gives the proceedings some added…

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