Swiss duo Parker Leftlover are Nikita & Jonas, they play songs about seduction and pain, about love and solitude, personal and universal at the same time. They say they are "a duet like a bag of joy and tears". In this recording, Only Lovers Left Alive, they have cannily managed to cross the decades with their slinky vocals, post-punk bass and space-age synths. Sounding like some oddball 1980s underground cabaret act from a surreal 1960s art movie, they offer a delightfully curious take on lo-fi synth-pop. They describe the piece as "The hiss of a tape and muffled beats of a drum machine, which sound like from a jukebox of a roadhouse in the lost woods. Haunting synths sing like ghosts. A voice echoes like memories of the past, whether it was the 50s or the 80s, you can't remember. Something is falling out of time, out of place. Red silk on a TV-screen. White leather gloves."
Intrigued? Well, this is certainly a mesmerizing tune with a smoky, transportational charm. I love it, so should you. Check out the full EP, Average Songs for Sad People.