HAPPY MEALS: If You Want Me Now (from FRUIT JUICE LSSN039) by Night School Records published on 2016-02-17T11:27:47Z Buy Fruit Juice here, Shipping from MAY 12th. http://nightschoolrecords.bigcartel.com/product/lssn039-happy-meals-fruit-juice-12 Fruit Juice is the first new recorded material from Glasgow-based electronic avant pop duo Happy Meals since the intense aftermath of Apéro, their debut album which garnered a place in the Scottish Album Of The Year final 10. Shorter in scale but sharpened and expanded, Fruit Juice takes the tender experimental beginnings and unabashed pop moments of ther first LP into undiscovered countries glowing with possibility. Since Apéro’s release at the end of 2014, Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook have toured the globe, from Moscow to Bombay via various European festivals, and have honed their dynamics live, in the moment, improvising and twisting the beat into new forms. As their live show has become more visceral and cinematic, Fruit Juice documents the duo’s new confidence. Run Around opens the E.P., with a sun-soaked tropicalia as conceived by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Rodden’s vocals warped into wordless peons to the rising sun. La Labas reaquaints the listener to Rodden’s Franco-Gallic tendancies, but this time Happy Meals reveal a sparse melancholy, with spacious percussion and synth fragments giving way to one of the group’s most immediate moments to date. If You Want Me Now is pop music, pure and from the source. Alternating between French and English, Rodden recreates the live persona that has emerged since the group’s beginnings; an unrestrained performer bringing the innate sensuality beneath Happy Meals’ surface exploding into the light. Cook’s production work here sounds fresh and classic simultaneously, a glorious Jacno tribute enthralled to House music and Italo Disco. Fruit Float, opening Side 2, draws us back up into the cosmos, with arpeggiated synths from Cook’s synth arsenal duetting with a flute solo before Suivez Moi delivers another pop song worthy of eternal repeat, a slice of electro not unlike the heights of Dare!-era Human League. Seductive and irresistible, it precedes the biggest step-up in Happy Meals’ recorded output, the acid-fried Now That You Have Me: ostensibly a high-BPM remix of If You Want Me Now that hints at the insanity of the final moments of a Happy Meals live show. Released as a limited to 500 12” featuring marble-painted artwork hand-made by the band, Fruit Float precedes Happy Meals’ 2nd full length album recorded on the Azores Archipelago. Each Fruit Float sleeve will be different and feature a digital download. Genre Happy Meals Comment by Alexander Wolff 🔥 2024-04-10T01:12:06Z Comment by Paloma Bovary i feel so glam inside 2020-03-13T16:24:06Z Comment by mahtab. matini 👹👹👹 2019-05-16T10:30:58Z Comment by queen of my living room <3 2017-08-30T19:35:23Z Comment by Les Fleurs Du Mal x Artéose Créations On Valide ! 2017-04-03T08:50:15Z Comment by Les Fleurs Du Mal x Artéose Créations trés belle découverte pépite musicale ! 2017-04-03T08:50:10Z Comment by Les Fleurs Du Mal x Artéose Créations j'adore ce coté frenchy sexy trop bon ! 2017-04-03T08:49:42Z Comment by EDDO delight 2016-09-23T09:37:53Z Comment by moth face best 2016-08-22T21:20:26Z Comment by Flegel yeayyy 2016-06-13T02:36:54Z Comment by S.T.R.S.G.N Just bought the EP, Love it! Great use of the 303! 2016-05-24T15:49:59Z Comment by Breakalime The way you sing the word "now" is tell-tale to your Dumfriesshire upbringing. 2016-05-22T08:35:49Z Comment by flowdozer who knows how many listens at zis point 2016-05-17T08:11:04Z Comment by flowdozer goddam i love zemmmm 2016-05-16T06:58:41Z Comment by KOOLROCKRADIO official KOOL!!! 2016-05-04T00:59:32Z