Two albums later they return with a fearsome fifth album. Hanterhir There Is No One to Trust (Easy Action/Hanterhir)īack in 2018 Cornish band Hanterhir’s epic The Saving of Cadan was our Vinyl of the Month. within which resides the album and a 12” x 12” photo/lyric/info insert. It’s originally packaged too, with the front cover opening like saloon doors to give access to a photo collage. While often solemn, there’s a lightening of spirit here and a variety of sound that’s more-ish. The album is loosely conceived around a chapter from The Egyptian Book of the Dead, after which it’s named, and Ibeyi’s usual Yoruba musical roots underpin everything too, but it crosses into avant-R&B and Afro-tonica, the latter especially on “Lavender & Red Roses”, featuring Jorja Smith. But songs such as the Afro-trap “Made of Gold” (featuring Brit-Gambian MC Pa Salieu) and the socio-politically aware goth-pulse of “Rise Above” (featuring Brit-Trinidadian MC Berwyn) have a different kind of heft. The Cuban twins, working with XL Records’ Richard Russell, still come over as serious and thoughtful, especially on self-reflective torch songs such as “Creature (Perfect)” in which they appear to find peace with the deaths that have haunted their life and work (they lost their dad and older sister far, far too young). This isn’t to say they’ve suddenly turned into The Cheeky Girls. Ibeyi’s third album steps – to some degree - away from the elegiac and occasionally gloomy tone of their previous output. Comes on vinyl that looks like celeste blue laundry conditioner swirling down a watery drain. This is invigorating stuff, and also a fine, bitchin’ counterpoint to contemporary culture’s endless emotional fragility. The music matches patches of spartan electronic beats’n’effects with bursts of grunge guitar raging. Bracingly aggressive, rude and misanthropic, Shelf Lives’ debut mini-album is laced with nihilism but also spiked with desert-dry humour, as Sabrina ruminates mostly about how boring life is and how she dislikes most things. “Why am I offended by the way that you breathe/I hate people and people hate me… that’s just how it is,” runs a typical lyric. Thank you very much! PS Yes, this is a picture of Zuzi.Juddering, sweary, punkin’, sneering electro-rock is the game of London-based duo Shelf Lives, fronted by single-monikered Canadian frontwoman Sabrina and Brit producer-guitarist Jonny. Every donation will strictly be used to improve this website. If you treat us to just one (hopefully more than one) cup of coffee (3€) we will feel energized to raise the bar. We are hell bent on improving the quality of this site. So what we are asking is this: If you’ve had some fun on our site, you could spread some joy of your own and support us. It’s safe to say that this site is like a full-time job on top of our regular jobs. Ok, maybe not blood, but plenty of sweat and tears. Honestly, this website costs blood, sweat and tears. Countless hours of research, reading, studying, discussions, brainstorms, some heated arguments between the driving forces behind this site about the content offered. Thousands and thousands of hours go into providing this website for you. That being said it's also true that it sure doesn't come easy. It's nothing short of a calling and if it would not be rewarding we would of course not be doing it.
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