Sharp, smart, candid and sometimes lyrically caustic synth pop by the London duo Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville in this third LP that highlights many challenges of life and femininity from eating disorder to abortion rights, dodgy relationships to personal insecurity and leaving the past behind. There are pop bangers, but also a darker cloud to their sound, with changing rhythms and precisely entwined vocals harmonies with a hue of darker grey. They’re not afraid to say it like it is, in other words, unflinching in passing comment on personal and human frailty. “Shrinking myself to let 'em in / Holding my hunger back again/ I tried to be good at everything/ I wasted my youth caring about it,” they sing on the engaging opener Late To The World. “I'm obsessed with winning back my exes/ Letting them beg, then leave them like I did before,” comes the confession on Attachment Theory. Then later, the indie pop of You Don’t Know How To Drive turns ire towards a bad boyfriend. You don't know how to drive / You're always missing the signs / But you have no problem telling me how to live from the passenger side … You text like a poet / But you don't make any sense / Love bombing, disappear, and block me as your self-defence.” The album is full of this barbed material often wrapped in sweet-sounding, soft-sheen and catchy pop. Other highlights include Unlearn, Girl, the Know How It Hurts, the gentle rippling menace of Quiet Violence, and Killing The Game. Out on Nettwerk Music Group.
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