 28/04/2009 DAVID E SUGAR
Nuts and Bolts: David E Sugar – guitars, blips, beeps, vocals and everything else
Stomping Ground: London, since 2004
Set to Soundtrack: the later part of this year, if you are lucky
Destined to Upset: Those who want a new album right now
You’re in Business if you Like: Calvin Harris, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Hot Chip, George Demure
He’s played to massive audiences in Germany and Switzerland, but somehow David E Sugar is a criminally unknown quantity in this country. The lord above only knows why; he ticks all the right boxes with euphoric keyboard lines, fuzzy backbeats and heartbreaking melodies drifting below laid-back East End slacker vocals, which merge seamlessly into a crooned baritone.
He’s currently unsigned but has recorded 37 new tracks, and is in talks with a handful of labels over the release of a full-length album later this year. Here at Notion, we’ve been lucky enough to get our grubby hands on half-a-dozen of his new unreleased tracks, which veer from down-tempo electro with delicate, harmonised vocals, to autumnal acoustic numbers with haunting keyboards and the occasional burst of bleeps and blips. The pick of the bunch is ‘Fleamarket’, which slips from a verse of serene synths and shuffling drums to a surprisingly poppy chorus that sounds like Talking Heads if they had stopped writing about architecture and laid down some bitter-sweet tracks dripping in nostalgia.
You will have to wait for a while before you hear a full album, but in the meantime, to sate your appetite, you can pick up a few limited edition vinyl singles if you trawl the internet, or just check out his myspace page, which isn’t as much fun, but is cheaper.
Extracted from Notion Magazine 38. To subscribe to Notion Magazine CLICK HERE!
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