Lilacs & Champagne

Lilacs & Champagne is a side project formed by Alex Hall and Emil Amos, founding members of Portland, Oregon experimental instrumentalists Grails. Taking a sample-based approach, the duo craft haunting, left-field beatscapes inspired by '70s film soundtracks, dub, trip-hop, and private-press psychedelia. They debuted with a self-titled album in 2012, and released one record per year until 2015's Midnight Features, Vol. 2: Made Flesh. After a long break, the project returned in 2024 with Fantasy World. Working primarily with an Akai MPC sampler, Hall and Amos forged their soun...