It’s easy to forget given the unseasonably warm weather we’ve been enjoying here in New York lately, but winter is a little more than a month away. And with that usually comes our need for bleak but beautiful music—steely synths, melodramatic drones, frosted folk…that sort of thing. On the other side of the spectrum are sun-stroked artists like Korallreven, a Swedish duo who delves into a soothing, deeply spiritual eternal summer sound on An Album By Korallreven (available now through Acephale). Inspired in part by Marcus Joons’ trip to Samoa, it’s the kind of thing that melts your melancholy away, and at the same time, revels in it.

In the following exclusive, we share Korallreven’s latest mixtape and speak to Joons about smoothie stands, working with Julianna Barwick and Victoria Bergsman, and “fun fun fun”…