Sarah Jones and Anthony Silvester’s debut brings experimental electro-pop and hyperpop, new wave, R&B, disco and more, from brilliant bangers to the oddball and bizarre, and influences from West Coast 60s synthesis movement to late 70s and early 80s Cabaret Voltaire with little dash of Yello. The pair have a rich experience in music, performing with everyone from Hot Chip, Harry Styles to Bloc Party. Jones has had a lasting percussive presence across much alternative UK pop music from her own solo project Pillow Person to playing on records by Puscifer and Kurt Vile. Silvester has performed in art galleries across Europe including: Fridericianum in Kassel, Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne, and Vleeshal in Middelburg, as well as providing sound design and composing work for several art films. So it’s no wonder that after a series of singles, their much anticipated debut is truly eclectic. Standouts include the title track, previously a Song of the Day here, You Saw Something In Me, Moving Too, And So…, Big Blue, and The Good Way. Experimentalism comes further with various surprising twists, such as with the soulful R&B of K +B, but also the indefinably odd Amsterdam and particularly the bubbling, resonantly strange Oh Oh that precedes the closing piano power-ballad style closing track, What A Year. Never predictable, this is vibrant work rich in influences with many original twists, and among most arresting and fascinating releases of 2023 so far. Out on Good Way Records.
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