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Biscay’s songs are shamelessly retrospective, fusing jazz, funk and soul grooves. This contrasts with the songs’ contemporary subjects, which wryly bemoan the state of the modern world.
Biscay thrive on this contrast - much like the part of the Atlantic from which they take their name, their music combines smooth sounds with the turbulence of 21st century urban life. Their debut, 6-track EP ‘Burnt Mementos’, due for release on Friday March 24th 2017, explores a range of topics from the flawed worship of good looks, the pointless pursuit of status, bad dates and worse relationships. The lyrics are semi-autobiographical. Biscay’s 6-strong line-up hail from London and Birmingham in the UK, remedying their post-Brexit gloom in 2016 by recruiting 21-year old, French lead singer, Eléa May. Originally from Montpellier, and now a London resident for two years, she is still coming to terms with the weather and the appalling cheese. The driving force behind Biscay is guitarist Phil Danter, who writes all the original music and lyrics, and pays for everything. Eléa and Phil are joined by drummer Ben Haines, keyboardist Kris Chase-Byrne, Bassist Rich Beardmore and Saxophonist Mikey Davis. Biscay’s primary objective in 2017 is to take themselves much, much more seriously. The six tracks on Burnt Mementos are all written by Phil (with the exception of the French rap lyrics on Your Cold Heart, penned by Eléa and Thomas Melograna). Phil’s songs have seen considerable past success, 4 of them winning categories in the Indie International, Hollywood and UK Songwriting Contests in 2014/5. Here’s the track-by-track guide for Burnt Mementos: 1. Pretty People – A light, poppy groove recalling Michael McDonald, which contrasts with the bitter polemic about the annoyingly good looking. 2. Your Cold Heart – This mixes up pop, prog riffs, Brian May guitar and French rap! The lyric conveys the raw anger of being dumped, which we’re sure feels the same in French or English. 3. Arromanches – Slowish blues with unconventional chord changes and a story contrasting the heroism of D-day soldiers to the lives of today’s lazy beachgoers. 4. Good Odds, Odd Goods – A retro Acid-Jazz groove combines with a thoroughly modern tale about men’s less than reliable dating profiles The next 2 tracks are on the released EP but not in the Music Submit package (available on request)! 5. Little Miss Kryptonite – A Steely-Danesque bluesy shuffle, with a dark tale of a woman so disappointed by men that her default mode becomes attack. 6. Space Dust – An old band favourite was the Dutch group Focus, which this recalls a little (with Hammond but without yodelling), whilst the lyrics espouse a mechanistic view of the universe.
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