London-based psych-pop chappie Cagey Bee will sting your eyes clean out of your face with his debut single “Heat to Survive” - a sun-addled three minutes of grinding dub rhythm section, fuzzed-out guitar and a synth line so wispy you’ll think you’ve just exhaled it.
“Heat to Survive” is the first ‘cut’ to be ‘dropped’ from Cagey Bee’s forthcoming debut album The Last Cuppa, produced by Ride legend Mark Gardener at Evolution Studios in Oxford.
The video was filmed in Barcelona during the city’s most recent Primavera Sound festival and as such is as disorientating & sun-drenched as the song itself.
We had a listen. Here’s what we thought:
‘Heat to Survive’ has a whiff of softcover B-movie Leonard Salzedo about it – even before the manifest calmness of the vocal emerges from the pupa.
In amongst the leaf-mould of crumpled percussions and bouncing Spanish guitar strums lies a bristle tail of squeezed keyboards.
A generous fiesta of sounds emerges from the exoskeleton of this fairly simple song.
And we are left with a sweet cornicle of chromatically panning synths.
- © Neil_Mach July 2013 -
Link:
https://www.facebook.com/cageybeeuk
Release date: September 16th, 2013
