Wednesday, March 08, 2023

Alice Low - Fruitcake

Another of those acts we love but might have slipped through the net during that period we just weren't writing about stuff, Cardiff-based Low set out her stall in every single conceivable way with shapeshifting fourteen minute 2021 debut single Ladydaddy, followed it with a trio of pointedly hypersexualised electropop tracks, then compressed it into pop song length with theatrical late 2022 single of blowing expectations Show Business, and in between developed a live presence peaking with an extraordinary set last Green Man. Taken from debut EP proper Transatlantic Sugar, out April 21st, the new one continues in her avant lane of identity reckoning glam extravagance pushing with all its might against its surroundings. There's bits in evidence of Sparks, Prince, Thin White Duke pre-plastic soul Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Don't Stand Me Down Dexys, within an insistent all too unvarnished confessional slow burn that doesn't see why it shouldn't throw in a coruscatingly widdly guitar solo. The Low experience can soon be seen supporting a couple of H Hawkline's dates and then The Great Escape.



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