Sarah Nixey
Arch, elegant British pop singer and songwriter Sarah Nixey is best known as the icy-voiced chanteuse of Black Box Recorder, a trio whose combination of melodic sweetness, bleakly cynical social commentary, and electronic pop eclecticism brought them a cult audience and some amount of (British) chart success around the turn of the millennium. Nixey was singing in the folk band Balloon when her bandmates Luke Haines (formerly of the Auteurs) and John Moore (formerly of the Jesus and Mary Chain) proposed that she join them as the vocalist for a new pop project they had conceived, promising that it would make her famous. Black Box Recorder went on to release three albums and a B-sides compilation between 1998 and 2003, and thereafter went on hiatus without officially breaking up, although Nixey and Moore, who had married in 2001 before the release of the third album, and had a daughter together, divorced in 2006. (All three members of the group resurfaced in holiday season of 2007 for a one-of collaboration single with members of Art Brut, "Christmas Number One," which was credited to the Black Arts.) Also in 2006, Nixey emerged as a solo artist with the singles "Strangelove" and "The Collector," for which she collaborated with another ex-member of the Auteurs, producer/programmer/writer James Banbury. Throughout her tenure with the band, Nixey had served strictly as the singer for Haines' and Moore's compositions and sardonic lyrics (a disconnect played up when she intoned "this is Sarah Nixey talking" on Passionoia's "Andrew Ridgely"), but for her solo debut, 2007's dance-pop oriented Sing, Memory, released on Banbury's ServiceAV label -- which opened with the same spoken message -- she wrote the melodies and notably more emotionally empathetic lyrics for all but two of the songs, one of them a cover of the early Human League song "The Black Hit of Space." Nixey also contributed vocals for Banbury's abstract electronic project InfantJoy and Luke Haines' 2006 album Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Brave Tin Soldiers
Rock - Released by Black Lead Records on 9 May 2011
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When I'm Here With You
Rock - Released by ServiceAV on 5 Feb 2007
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The Zeppelin
Pop - Released by Black Lead Records on 14 Sep 2018
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THe Black Hit of Space - Single
Pop - Released by ServiceAV on 9 Jul 2007
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The Black Hit of Space - eMusic Exclusive
Electronic - Released by ServiceAV on 9 Jul 2007
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Strangelove Remixes
Electronic - Released by ServiceAV on 11 Dec 2006
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Coming Up For Air (Acoustic)
Pop - Released by Black Lead Records on 24 Aug 2018
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When I'm Here With You Mixes
Trance - Released by ServiceAV on 16 Jun 2008
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The Collector Meets...
Dance - Released by ServiceAV on 26 Jun 2006
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Christmas Without You
Rock - Released by Black Lead Records on 3 Dec 2012
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Brave Tin Soldiers EP
Rock - Released by Black Lead Records on 2 May 2011
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Nixey's Merry Christmas Single
Rock - Released by Black Lead Records on 12 Dec 2011
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Coming Up For Air
Pop - Released by Black Lead Records on 13 Jul 2018
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Dancing At The Edge Of The World
Pop - Released by Black Lead Records on 21 Dec 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo