So just what the hell is going in in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY?

It's a real estate hot spot and where some potentially shady low-rent business practices are taking place. Because according to Jewish Business News, there's a building there where 1,000 LLC companies receive checks at P.O. Boxes?

What's creepy about this story in particular is that one of them belongs to a dead 'murdered' man who's box is probably still active?

I don't know things!

And in yet, in another publication, there's a story published by The Real Deal where it mentions that that murdered man named Menachem Stark, might have been a slumlord.

In the immediate wake of his murder, investigators suggested Stark may have been involved in dubious foreclosure transactions with people he knew.

That's the bad stuff though.

Joseph Sant is from Brooklyn
The area is a trendy hot spot for Brooklynites and the envy of me! Also, safe haven for real estate slumlords and a dense Hasidic Jew population. [image by Lisa Larson-Walker via Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0]

The good stuff is that South Williamsburg is also the place where a fella by the name of Joseph Sant comes from. He's probably riding high from releasing his debut EP called Sea White Salt, a four track 13-minute mini-masterpiece which easily immerses you into a frothy bath of dreampop you won't want to emerge from.

That's a bit unsettling, to put this 4-track EP as if it were a serial killer. And one that's charming enough for you to be okay with it submerging you in wave-lapping bliss.

This is easy to fall for because when I was looking for it, I couldn't find any definite structure with the first track Horse At The Beach until I found that it didn't really need one.

Joseph Sant appears to have taken the simplicity of the two-chord progression and felt it out as he goes through the song to where I'm pretty confident he recorded the track in one take.

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He might have had to too because apparently, the studio where he cut these tracks, Four Foot Studios, was being forced to relocate, perhaps a victim of the gentrification program there?

But that opening track shows Sant's subtle craftsmanship as he holds back a bit, keeping the mesmerizing and hollow sounding aesthetic of his idea, centered.

Sea White Salt almost went right by me because it's designed to be melodically lazy, like a train ride between destinations that no one is in a hurry to get to.

But that's because already halfway through, this EP is posing beautifully.

You can't do anything but submit to its beauty.

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But then Noreaster kicks in as the third track to this already amazingly fresh EP.

When he curves that bass line he sends me to my grab bag of impulses and a reminder that there's life throughout this EP and it doesn't give into the opioid tone we started with.

And just like the typical dream state Joseph Sant put me under, the EP is over and forgotten.

But that's because it's not meant to be listened to once!

That's why you want to loop these tracks over and over again, all day until you can't stand it.

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But, there's that video of an extra song I found that isn't on this release so now, that makes this a five-track EP.

Official Site, SoundCloud, Facebook, @JSantMusic,

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Amazon,

YouTube

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