The Liverpool trio of Emily Lansley, Rebecca Hawley, Luciana Mercer’s wonderfully experimental 10-song album springs from a specially commissioned project with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, taking inspiration from the female pioneers of electronic music. Influences range, of course, from BBC pioneer Delia Derbyshire, as well Laurie Anderson, Daphne Oram, and Suzanne Ciani, and more recent figures SOPHIE and Planningtorock. The tracks were written in the band’s home studios and came to life as a live installation at the Great Exhibition of the North with a mechanical light-up stage and robotic dance performers. Squeaks, beats wobbles, robotic voices, rolling marbles and more are plentiful to enjoy, including fabulous tunes from opener Power Up & Blast to Synthetic Love Muscle, and dance electronica from Pressure, to Replicate, Disco Italo and the single Never Gonna Live Up, harking back to the sound of the Roland TB-303, as a previous Song of the Day. Out on the Manchester label that promotes gender equality in music, Both Sides Records.
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