For some undefined reason the world of club bangers and the literary scene don’t, as a rule, collide. Yes, artists like Kai Tempest have put incredible spoken word works to top-quality electronic music but dance floor fillers that use all-time great authors as their muse are thin on the ground. London music scene goliath Lisa Moorish obliterates that ridiculous paradigm with new single ‘Sylvia’, penned about the singer’s affinity, both aesthetic (they’re the spitting image of each other) and spiritual, with mid-20th century poetic icon Sylvia Plath.
Striking out in the early 1990s, vocalist Moorish carved out a solid pop-dance music career robustly supported by the likes of George Michael, featured on recordings by Oasis and Ash later on in the decade and formed punk band Kill City with guitarist Pete Jones/Welsh Pete in the early 00s, putting out cult-classics ‘White Boy Brown Girl’, ‘Just Like Bruce Lee’, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore’, performing a raft of incendiary gigs, Libertines support slots and releasing on Alan McGee’s much lauded Poptones label.
‘Sylvia’ has the singer/songwriter returning to her house anthem roots, setting her soulful vocals to an electropop floorfiller of Ladytron, Miss Kittin or The Knife ilk. The bass-heavy, sparkling rhythms are spiked with words raking through the poet’s fame and fraught marriage, applauding her stellar, esoteric talent and remarking on Moorish’s own feeling of kinship with the writer, asking of the ill-fated authoress: “Sylvia, where do I end and you begin?”
The ‘Sylvia’ EP features some vital remixes from DJ and producer David Holmes. It was released on 6th March 2024 on Out Yer Box records and is the first single from Lisa Moorish’s forthcoming new LP ‘Divine Chaos’. You can listen to ‘Sylvia’ on the bandcamp link below:
Edge of Arcady 