A new Berlin label, Destination Pop starts this week with two very different, an edition of 500 copies limited vinyl releases. I'll begin with the Swedish singer Sarah Nyberg parchment, which in recent years published as Action Biker already a couple of singles on different labels. "Hesperian Puisto " appears first as 7'' single (so far as the song was only on the eponymous album from 2008 sounds), on the B-side, also with "With You Tears Tears Without " a previously unreleased track by. The songs of Action Biker makes a sparse, minimalist charm that is very reminiscent of the early Au Revoir Simone and The Somnambulants. The extremely reduced instrumentation of subdued drum machine rhythms and electric piano arpeggios complemented perfectly with Nyberg parchment (some polyphonic) timid voice. Without even close to dark, to come to produce the songs of Action Biker a feeling of nightmarish isolation, which in this form probably was at least still likely Emiliana Torrini "Dead Things" or electronica aesthetes as Sensorama, Donna Regina or aromabar.
is a particularly spicy release "Return to Love " by Billy MacKenzie , which was created in 1995 in cooperation with Steve Aungle and now appears for the first time alsVinyl single. The song gives an insight into the late phase of the ex-Associates singer , the at this time for artists like Yello, Barry Adamson and Apollo Four Forty contributed guest vocals. Musically, he then trod electron pathway without losing the taste for timeless pop. This proves especially "Return to Love" backed with a string carpet the right at the beginning of a flair of urban melancholy of David Bowie's "Low pay leaves, the song takes off with MacKenzie's song divine of danceable synth rhythms in an irresistible fields from euphoric. Today, after Italo disco revival, countless post-punk re-issues and the return of pop in the clubs this has a strangely modern than in its construction, and fits so easily into the canon of an Associates classics. The B-side "The Soul That Sighs " beats the other hand, in a melancholy tone and moves in that border area between trip hop and symphonic pop that filled out impressively in the nineties, bands like Mono or Mandalay. Driven by sluggish esoteric percussion, a prominent piano fourth and MacKenzie song - here is very reminiscent of David McAlmont - has the Play like an apocalyptic version of Marvin Gaye . friends of the vinyl single culture is strongly recommended to keep the other activities of Destination pop in the eye. There is reason to hope that the combination of publications in this country (yet) is unknown artists and rarities of earlier heroes continue in the near future.
Action Biker - Hesperian Puisto / Tears With You Without Tears, Billy MacKenzie & Steve Aungle - Return to Love / The Soul That Sighs (Destination pop, release date: 09.08.2010)
