FORMER indie star turned electronic adventurer HiFi Sean and legendary singer David McAlmont have joined forces for their new album “Happy Ending” which comes out on Feb 3
through Plastique Recordings.
The duo recorded the album at the top of an East London tower block, mixed it in a beach hut on Camber Sands and gilded it with Bollywood strings.
It is already setting its sights hide and wide, but when the sound and vision encompasses panoramic electronic soul laced with a viscerally personal reaction to the mad times we’re living
through, we’re in the presence of something special.
The lead single that trails the album, ‘All in the World,’ is a window onto the duo’s kaleidoscopic rhythm and rhyme, mixing joy and rage with chance and chaos.
Over a percolating house/disco hybrid – “It’s a bit ravey,” Sean reckons, while David’s suitably charged lyric suggests he’s surrendering rather than fighting this, “Catalogue of fools,” as he puts it.
Picture by Arber.These two British protagonists are Sean Dickson, a former indie star who reinvented himself as an electronic adventurist – musician, DJ, producer – whose last album Ft. featured a stellar line-up of guest vocalists, including Yoko Ono, Fred Schneider (B- 52’s), Alan Vega, Crystal Waters (fronting ‘Testify’, which topped the US Billboard dance chart) and David McAlmont – the last, a thrilling singing sensation with an illustrious history, from indie-soul pioneers Thieves and the legendary McAlmont & Butler to purer soul and jazz recordings and a striking collaboration with minimalist composer Michael Nyman.
The duo’s album will be released on LP / CD / DL, and the vinyl version has an extra track only available on that called ‘Bunker to Bunker’.
