Sarah Nixey

La cantante de The Black Box Recorder debuta en solitario. Suena como una versión más pop de BBR. Dos versiones: una del grupo belga de Factory The Names, -"the nightshift"- que está muy bien y otra del "The Black hit of the space" del Travelogue de The Human League, esta menos conseguida. El Album se llama "Sing, Memory" y está editado por el sello Service Av, detrás del cual está ¡Paul Morley!, el ideólogo del post punk. Curioso. Por cierto, el clip está rodado en el mismo lugar donde Chickfactor hizo su última fiesta en Londres. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h63Oc7L8FrI

 Sarah Nixey made her show business entrance as one third of the darkly glamorous pop group Black Box Recorder. She was in the severe, dreamy centre, singing scheming songs that were deadly serious about trivia, and deeply frivolous about important matters, acting out her role as interpreter and enigma with subversive attention to detail. She sang the songs as if they were bruised lullabies, as if she was soothing the 20th Century to sleep, as if she was a friend of Alice in Wonderland and Sylvia Plath who was quite partial to the Pet Shop Boys and Francoise Hardy.

Sarah is now solo, having had her group moment, her hits inside a deadpan parody of a pop group. Her flash, exotically electric singles The Collector and Strangelove were like manifestos proclaiming that she's as committed to the idea of pop as a dream, a fantasy, as she had been in Black Box Recorder, but this time the surreal edge, the emotional pressure, the deviant intensity is all her own.

She sings smart pop songs. They tell heady, half-crazed stories about minds and bodies, flesh and spirit, memories and illusions, desperation and passion. They're theme tunes to far fetched adventures, songs that play over the credit sequences to imaginary Bond films as written by Kafka, Ballard, Nabokov, Atwood. They will be hits, but not obvious hits, not everyday hits. She sings them on her forthcoming album Sing, Memory with that tough, tender combination of explicit English detachment and cryptic European emotion that's all her own.

The single: When I’m Here With You - released 29th January 2007.

The album: Sing, Memory - released 19th February 2007.