Unsurprisingly, I have more gloomy sounds to bring to your attention - after all, there is a lot of fun to be had in the dark. On hearing Claudia Kane’s new platter Surrender, the song grasped me like a fever dream in a concrete basement - claustrophobic, seductive and oddly compelling.
The London-based producer, songwriter, vocalist, and DJ conjures a sonic world where cabaret electronics meet the sweat and shadows of underground nightlife. Her voice, sensual and understated, glides over a machine-like electro backbone riddled with sinister, animalistic sound effects. It’s dense paranoia rendered in four and half minutes of a song - like a cinematic Fad Gadget running through the murky, subterranean backstreets.
Claudia Kane says: “I start with a scene in my head and create textures and lyrics that feel close, unsettling and haunted by something unsaid". That is well illustrated in the track's music video, itself presented like a short movie.
Regular readers of my words will know that I’m drawn to this kind of intensity: sculptural synths, brutal textures and the feeling that all is not well. A sort of musical turbulence, I suppose? As such, this one is certainly for the post-punks with a taste for electronic menace. Nicely done. I submit.