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‘Love it! Electronic wonkiness at its finest’ - Richard Norris (The Grid)

TEA, CAKES AND THE (WO)MAN MACHINE

Curtain Twitcher could only have emerged from Sheffield.
A female electronic duo whose corrupted downtempo post Balearic chug pulses and wobbles, throbs and twitches - full of fat noises and bolshy Moogery.

It's human and appealingly analogue. More Delia Derbyshire's Radiophonic Workshop than DAF, More Tangerine Dream than Depeche Mode. Not your average bloketronica.

Frankly this music doesn't behave itself in any way you might expect. Plugged-in post-rave-pop can be far too orderly. Music should be messy. Even on occasion revealing a tune your mum could hum.

“The Fourth Door” is an English electric meditation that feels organic and effortless. It pairs nicely with “The Perfect Light” - which suggests the dreaminess of early Kraftwerk, Krautrock and Cluster.

“Migration” and lead track “Northern Flicker” are hazily nostalgic acidic squelchers, to summon the great dance music reviewer James Hamilton!

Sophie Stone and Grace Griffin's creative and collaborative friendship goes back to the days of influential underground Sheffield venue, Club 60.
In 2021 they released an album as Surreal Appeal called “Gently Deranged", described as ‘Northern Electro at its mesmerising best’ by Now Then Magazine...

"Leap The Dips" emerged from machine jamming with a creative freedom that only comes from friendship. That friendship is a musical one but it's also real and genuine: ‘We’ll talk about pretty much owt if you provide the tea and cakes’. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: It's bonkers, it's batshit, it's BRILLIAANNNTT!! Mad cat electronix that should appeal to fans of both The Eccentronic Research Council and Moonlandingz. Full of contradictions, it's both jugular hitting yet psychedelic, proving instrumental electronica can be both fun and sophisticated at the same time; no beards were twiddled in the making of this record!!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Migration
A2. Northern Flicker
A3. Analogue Epilogue
A4. The Perfect Light
B1. Sonate
B2. Inflight Entertainment
B3. The Fourth Door