OnDeadWaves

"Most surprising, given the work with electronic music that has dominated both the careers of both Scattergood and Chapman, is the near absence of anything resembling a synth ... When collaborations like this take the artists so far from their comfort zones, and when the results are as profoundly successful as these, you do have to wonder why they'd ever go back. There's plenty more life in these here dead waves on the evidence of this record".

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"The Mute-issued debut long-player from the U.K.-based dream pop duo featuring electro-folk rocker Polly Scattergood and Maps mastermind James Chapman, On Dead Waves is a noir-ish, unabashedly cinematic slab of brooding doom pop that's begging for placement in an early-'90s David Lynch or Oliver Stone film".

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