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Face+Heel are bridging the gap between electro, dance and rock
Welsh duo Face+Heel unveil 'Pier Video', the first track off their forthcoming album Our Prince's Quarry.
'Pier Video', in which punching kick drums, guitar riffs, plucking violins, distorted piano chords and autoharps are layered expertly to create an unmistakably analogue feel, is actually an ode to an art house video shop in the group's home town Aberystwyth. As the band explained, "Some of the song's parts were recorded on an unreturned copy of 'Girl Interrupted' from that shop post rockaberystwyth".
The track, indicative of the album as a whole, features Luke Taylor and Sinead McMillan’s trademark electric-guitar fuelled, synth-infused sound, bridging the gap between electro, dance and rock. Delving into the love/hate affair with his hometown of Aberystwyth in North Wales, lyricist Luke says of the album’s narrative that “Some of the instrument choices and structures are there to reflect what I was listening to growing up in the 90s in West Wales. It’s both in love with the place and has a sense of resentment at how remote and marginal it is and how every street has a memory of growing up; good or bad.”
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