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The second in a series of NOTHING FANCY physical releases. Each series / season will have 12 releases. On the spine of each release will have a letter from NOTHING FANCY. So if you collect all 12 and line them up it will spell….
This first season (called NOTHING COVERED) is a series of cassette releases. Each tape will feature an original song plus a cover on the A-side, with the B-side featuring some tracks exclusive to the cassette release.
London based artist Vogues today (16/9/20) releases his debut single "YH4M". A woozy, alt-pop number written during a bout of insomnia due to a bedbug infestation whilst studying acting in rural France.
The track was produced by Benjamin Woods of The Golden Dregs with whom Vogues recently released a collaborative EP entitled 'Sorry For Your Loss'. The release, described by The FADER as "wonderfully lonely danceable electro", features five reimaginings of tracks from The Golden Dregs’ acclaimed Hope Is For The Hopeless album.
During his time in France, Vogues was the sole lodger in a huge old house just south of Paris. Owned by a terrifying former lawyer, it was here where sketches of songs first came together.
Debut single "YH4M" gently opens with gliding vocal motifs and squelching electronics, backed by a rolling piano movement. Sitting front and centre though, is Vogues' warm, rich vocal. Sounding in places like his voice has been lifted from a bygone era, Vogues, along with producer Benjamin Woods neatly incorporate elements of soul, electronic and alternative pop to create something truly encapsulating.
Speaking on how the song came to be, Vogues said: “It was the Summer time so my remedy was to spend the long nights drinking one euro bottles of red wine and getting stoned in the woods until I could traipse home and sink into oblivion, before inevitably waking a few hours later scratching myself frantically. When I couldn’t sleep I’d go down to the basement which was filled with stuff, she [the lawyer] was a bit of a hoarder, old rocking horses and paintings of her dead relatives, where there was a pretty decrepit nicely out of tune upright piano, that’s how the song began.”
Returning to the UK last summer, Vogues reconnected with Benjamin from The Golden Dregs, dreaming up the concept for their collaborative EP and beginning the work on Vogues’ solo material.
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