Poolside

Daytime disco

Poolside is a Los Angeles band formed in 2011 by Jeffrey Paradise and Filip Nikolic, who call their style daytime disco. They met in 2004 at Frisco Disco in San Francisco, and in 2005 Nikolic moved to Los Angeles for a few months and they made songs; a disco-influenced project planned in 2006 never got too serious. Nikolic, who had played bass in Junior Senior, left in 2017, and Paradise, who produces and plays guitar and sings, has been the remaining member, with touring players including Vito Roccoforte and Mattie Safer of the Rapture. Their debut single "Do You Believe" came out on Future Classic in 2011, followed by "Take Me Home" in October 2011, with a video in November, and the mixtapes Day and Night and Night People (2011).

The debut album Pacific Standard Time came out on July 9, 2012, sixteen songs over an hour and twelve minutes, opening with the instrumental "Tulsa". Pitchfork described a disco album that slinks along with the urgency of a teenager on the first day of summer vacation and named "Slow Down" a Best New Track. Heat followed on June 20, 2017, Low Season on February 7, 2020 (produced by Paradise alone on Pacific Standard Records), the remix album High Season on May 28, 2021 and Blame It All On Love in 2023, self-produced with guests including Panama, Vansire and Ora the Molecule. Paradise told American Songwriter that there's a shadow side to everything when you pursue the things you love. They played FYF and Primavera Sound in 2013, Coachella in 2014 and Outside Lands in 2018 and 2023, and remixed the Rapture, Matthew Dear, Sade, Rhye and Neil Young, among others. A Grateful Dead cover, "Shakedown Street", came in 2020, ahead of Jerry Garcia's birthday, supported by the Rex Foundation and the Garcia family.