A collection of collaged pop music by a Belgian artist, Queues by Dida is an atemporal piece of junkstore sample psychedelica. Building on the work of everyone from The Avalanches to People Like Us, Queues exists in the cracks of musical history. In its synthesis of sample sources, many of them very roughly timestamped to the 1960s or 1970s, some of them calling to genres like exotica or baroque pop, the record’s bricolage feels almost retro in its own right. I guess what I’m trying to say is that the dream of the 1990s is alive and well on Queues—you can roast me in the comments for the Portlandia reference—and it’s a dream that feels not altogether bleak, especially when considering our current reality. The artist conceived the album as a love letter of sorts; without getting too sappy on a Monday morning, the world could probably use a bit more of that right now.

