FORT LAUDERDALE
Toby Jenkins and Steve Webster were Fort Lauderdale, before being respectively The Squire Of Somerton and The Black Neon. |
Steve: The Black Neon, Higamos Hogamos
Toby: The Squire Of Somerton
01. Insane Overdrive
02. Prey To The Stars
03. Best Days
04. The Chilling Place
05. As A Boy
06. My Vacant Mind
07. May The Scene Last A Thousand Years
08. Sexy Creature
09. Hello It's Me
10. Out Of The Ether
11. Rock 'N' Roll
12. Silent Ways
13. Force Of Nature
14. Pretty Monster
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01. We Ain't Got No Money Honey
02. Down Cricket Lilly Lane
03. Time Is Of The Essence
04. Fixing Spaceships
05. Miami Girls In Slow Motion
06. Neon Nights
07. Flux 1912
08. The Playboys Demise
09. Let's Go Here
10. Twenty Years Ago
11. Nausea
12. A Lot Of Light, A Lot Of Shade
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"The album is a superb collection of slightly romantic electronic tracks, evoking the decadence of Victorian Britain, with luscious string work and clever melodies." - The Milk Factory
"In it's luxurious folk psychedelia and behind-the-drapes decadence redolent of 19th century leisured classes, the album recalls both the crack'd genius of Syd Barrett and the utopian visions of HG Wells, the album is best described as downtempo space funk meets psychedelic electronica. Check out the backwards guitar styled tea dance of 'Flux 1912' and the Bowie-on-a-bontempi that is 'Fixing Spaceships'. 'A twisted journey into the depths of the mind that takes in space-funk and electronica making it infinitely listenable." - Forced Exposure
Pretty Monster
"Some albums entertain, some make you think, and some take you to another place. Pretty Monster does a little bit of all three." - Gigwise
They got their name from a 1960's book that Steve had, A Tale of Debauchery & Drugs in Fort Lauderdale, telling of life as a teenager in the Florida city.
They borrow from jazz, classical, rock, lounge..
"Our approach to music in regards to mixing genres is that we've tried to create a musical environment of our own where we can put anything we want into it. In a sense a musical dream world where things that are not usually associated with each other are allowed to freely coheres, as in dream logic. As long as at the end result works musically."