Fan Death return with a sneak preview of their new EP, A Coin For The Well, due for release 4th January 2010 on The Pharmacy Recording Company.
Following on from the recent success of the brilliant “Reunited” video, their latest track “Cannibal” has its roots in the disco of “Veronica’s Veil”, driven by a brilliant string motif with dazzling results.
It is also the lead track off the EP, a hook-filled dancefloor hit that is a pure leftfield pop classic in the making.
i’ve just recorded this for fun, while the rest of clash the disko kids go hiding in studio making fierce techno beats. Enjoy, we’ll be back stronger!! – Kurt
01 Music Go Music – Warm In The Shadows
02 Fan Death – Cannibal
03 Blondie – Heart of Glass
04 Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
05 Downtown Party Network – Heart Break Dancing
06 Has – Milankovich
07 The Gossip – Love Long Distance (Riva Starr Remix)
08 Florence & The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Leo Zero Remix)
09 Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – Feuerprobe (Rory Phillips Remix)
10 In Flagranti – Louvere For Yo
11 The Juan Maclean – No Time
12 Abstraxion – Chandler Bing
13 Hugg & Pepp – Penguini
14 Jori Hulkkonen – Bend Over Beethoven
15 Sebastien Leger – Seaweed
16 Lazersonic & Zak Frost – Aquaplane
17 Rhythm Droid – Sunrise On Planet Tokyo
18 Empire of The Sun – Walking On A Dream (Clash The Disko Kids & Ming “Lo-Fi Dreamy” Remix)
Fan Death are the best new disco act we’ve heard. The best and the most authentic-sounding: they’re not nu rave, or an indie-dance band, or a guitar group using a funk undercarriage. They’ve got the slightly wonky strings, elegant mid-tempo rhythms and female vocals of disco, recalling the music’s golden age – ie. between the release of Donna Summer’s Love To Love You Baby in 1975 and the ritual burning of disco records in that baseball stadium in Chicago that signalled the death of disco in 1979. They’re a girl duo who recognise that all the best disco records were sung by women, and they sing in the blank, distracted manner of all the finest disco divas. Really, they hardly sing at all – they open their mouths and pout and this spookily, exquisitely blank, almost Teutonic sound comes out. And, again like all the finest disco acts, they’re anonymous, a blank canvas on which listeners can project their ultimate fantasies of romance and dancing, their wistful feelings of longing and regret. They make us think about the allure of sorrow, the sadness of the glamorous life and what the Pet Shop Boys used to call “the void at the heart of dance culture”.
They’re an art project, using mystery and some amateur myth-making to cover their artful tracks because disco at its best wasn’t knowing, it was directly emotional. We know very little about them; we’re not even sure who they are or what they’re called. They’ve taken the name Fan Death from an old South Korean fear that electric fans, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause death by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia. They say they’re from Grey Gardens, but there’s no such place: it’s the title of a 1975 documentary about two women who lived at Grey Gardens, a decrepit 28-room mansion in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighbourhood of New York. A bit of detective work reveals that they’re actually from Vancouver in Canada. Their debut single, Veronica’s Veil, refers to the Catholic relic which, according to legend, belonged to Veronica from Jerusalem who encountered Jesus on the way to Calvary and wiped the sweat from his face, leaving an imprint of his image on her veil.
Some actual, proper facts: Fan Death are the protégés of glam-trash DJ Erol Alkan, who on his remix gives the single extra electroclash-y oomph on the handclaps and bass. They’re adored by superstar tastemaker Diplo. They’re the subjects of blog hysteria. And in a press release they declare their intention to be to “make music that recalls the greatest era of electronic pop: Depeche Mode, OMD, New Order, Human League, Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys. Great songs that happened to be electronic, not soulless, repetitious club music that seems to dominate these days.” Meanwhile, that graceful figure sashaying across the dancefloor gazing forlornly at his reflection in the mirrorball is John Travolta as Tony Manero.
New track has trickled out from lady disco duo Fan Death. “Cannibal” is business as usual for Fan Death, all disco strings and melodrama while Dandi Wind’s breathy vocal struts straight into the center of the track, although if you listen carefully, you can also hear Marta in there too. Fan Death’s Myspace Page claims that they’re working on an EP, a full length, and videos for all of the faithful who’ve been staving off starvation witth the singles the girls have let dribble from their lips, but you’ll have to do with “Cannibal” until the real meal comes.
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