Creep Show
A collaboration between sardonic singer/songwriter John Grant and electro supergroup Wrangler, Creep Show's witty, mischievous music subverts funk, techno, and pop. The project's debut, 2018's Mr. Dynamite, offered drolly deadpan electronic experiments that bubbled over with creative chemistry; on 2023's Yawning Abyss, Creep Show honed their songwriting to take sharp, satirical aim at society's corruption and complacency.
Grant met the men of Wrangler -- former Cabaret Voltaire frontman Stephen Mallinder, Tuung's Phillip Winter, and Ben "Benge" Edwards -- at the 2014 Sensoria Festival in Sheffield, England, where the group was performing with Carter Tutti. They hit it off and stayed in touch, first working together in 2016 on a remix of "Voodoo Doll," a single from Grant's 2015 album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. That October, they collaborated on a set of new material for a concert at London's Barbican Theatre celebrating the indie record store chain Rough Trade's 40th anniversary. The group -- whose name comes from an art exhibit that Edwards saw in a dream -- recorded its debut album at Edwards' home studio in Cornwall, taking full advantage of his wide array of analog synths and the members' shared fondness for film soundtracks and post-punk. The results were Mr. Dynamite, which Bella Union released in March 2018. The following year, Creep Show issued the single "Uneffable" just before touring the U.K. For their next album, the project took a more direct approach that stripped some of the effects from Grant and Mallinder's vocals and focused their songwriting. Created at Edwards' studio and in Iceland, June 2023's Yawning Abyss explored moral bankruptcy and indifference with songs that ranged from brooding ballads to industrial funk workouts.
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Discographie
10 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Mr. Dynamite
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Bella Union le 16 mars 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Modern Parenting
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Bella Union le 29 janv. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Safe & Sound (Kincaid Remix)
Électronique - Paru chez Bella Union le 27 juin 2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Pink Squirrel
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Bella Union le 11 déc. 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mr. Dynamite
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Bella Union le 12 mars 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo