Smooth Big Cat by Dope Lemon

Smooth Big Cat, released on 12 July 2019, is Angus Stone's second record under the Dope Lemon name and his fourth album all told. It's music for the passenger seat with the window down, hazy and in no particular hurry, and the loping single "Hey You" is as good a place as any to sink in.

Reviewers heard the same easy drift. Rochelle Bevis at Beat Magazine called it the most developed, ethereal thing the project had done, and likened it to floating home after a perfect road trip; Taylor Marshall at The Music AU figured it would send people reaching for acoustic guitars; and Atwood Magazine's Ben Niesen compared it to a lava lamp, a little kitschy and out of date but hypnotic all the same. At home, listeners bought in, sending it to number 2 in Australia.

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