10 April 2018 - 0 Comments
New Zealand’s Jaggers x Lines (Eliana Gray and Morgan Smilie) continue to surprise with their eclectic approach to pop music. Piano trills, horn blasts and insistent bass punctuate the sample heavy breakbeats. A disarming mix of jazzercise records, Gray's intimate vocals and Smillie's turntablist sensibilities; their latest single Problem Drinking (the third from their upcoming debut album Burn Cycle) sounds like the moment the house party starts to break.
Formed in the early morning
hours of 'world's smallest bar' where Gray used to work, a jam session
transformed into a debut EP Letters, recorded in Smillie's bedroom over the
course of two weeks. Four singles, a national tour and an impending debut album
and music video later, the scratch-happy duo is finding out exactly what
happens when you filter the mind of a pop-obsessed poet through the beats of a
producer who grew up in Dunedin's underground MC scene.
Problem Drinking is available on all streaming platforms, Bandcamp and
SoundCloud.
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