Since 2010, Brooklyn-via-Toronto label Orchid Tapes has been releasing albums by young songwriters whose delightfully warm material exudes an intimacy I usually associate with bedroom acts. I don't entirely endorse the use of "bedroom pop" to describe Orchid Tapes' catalog, as the term doesn't speak to some of the musicians' flair for experimentation—take Three Love Songs, the proper full-length debut by Ricky Eat Acid (aka Sam Ray), on which Ray samples a cover of Drake's "Take Care" and drops it on a house track that's sandwiched between a couple lovely ambient numbers.…
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