APERO by HAPPY MEALS
SKU | 79978 |
Artist | HAPPY MEALS |
Title | APERO |
Label | NIGHT SCHOOL RECORDS |
Catalog # | LSSN028LP |
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Release | W 46 - 2014 |
Format | Vinyl - UKLP |
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€ 17,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Crystal Salutation
- Electronic Disco
- Altered Images
- The Age Of Love
- Visions Of Utopia
- Le Voyage
Description
Happy Meals is the Glasgow-based duo of Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, life-partners since high school finding expression in cosmic form.Originally from the Scottish borders, Rodden and Cook (also of The Cosmic Dead) begat Happy Meals in a flurry of experimentation at Glasgow's creative hub The Green Door Store. Initially the result of a free music production course, Apero sees the pair embark on a blissful voyage into a love-fuelled, outward-looking hedonism. Both artists operate machines and sing but it�s the dominating Franco-Scottish lingua-franca of Suzanne Rodden that imbues a sense of seductive fun to the album.
Their first recorded statement, Apero is an instant rush of Kosmiche-disco, utterly addictive and inviting. The epic Crystal Salutation welcomes the listener in with analogue synths delayed into the horizon before Electronic Disco ushers in distorted drum machines and Rodden's disco-at-sunset vocal. Album stand-out Altered Images is a pop-masterpiece, mixing French / Italo disco, acid basslines and a sense of Scottish optimism. Age Of Love is unabashedly the feeling of being up until day-break, with layered synths climaxing all-around. Retro-futuristic visions abound on the beat-less Visions Of Utopia before closer
Le Voyage reprises back the cosmopolitan disco, playing out the perfect club night in ecstatic fashion. It's an enchanting, inclusive vision; everyone is invited, the future is bright.