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"This seemingly menacing track is a pure pop confection with a frothy synth arrangement and Nixey's totally irresistible disco chic vocals in proper Queen's English...Get ready for Sarah Nixey. A stylish pop force to be reckoned with." arjanwrites.com Sarah Nixey is best known as the singer in Black Box Recorder. Whilst working as a backing vocalist for the folk band Balloon, Nixey stumbled upon the reprobates John Moore (ex Jesus & Mary Chain drummer) and Luke Haines (ex The Auteurs frontman), also in the bands line up at that time. Moore and Haines approached Nixey with an idea for a band, writing a letter promising to make her famous. Given their lack of previous chart success, Nixey was amused and immediately took up their offer. The enigmatic three piece appeared at the start of 1998 and have released four massively acclaimed albums to date. Their debut, brutish and bleak, England Made Me spawned the single Child Psychology, banned from national radio because it contained the chorus “Life is unfair/kill yourself or get overâ€. This was possibly the first anti-Britpop record. The follow-up, The Facts Of Life, dealt with similar themes – love, sex, suicide and death – and saw the band performing the Top Twenty title track on Top Of The Pops. The Worst of Black Box Recorder, a collection of b-sides and unreleased material preceded the band's urbane 2003 album, Passionoia. As the Trojan horse of one of the most fascinating and compelling pop bands of recent years, Nixey’s detached sensuality and Jane Birkine-sque vocals played beautifully upon the juxtaposition of safety and horror. When BBR entered a comatose state, Nixey began collaborating with producer James Banbury, writing and recording her first solo album 'Sing, Memory' which will be released by ServiceAV during the Autumn (fall) of 2006. The songs are modern tales of poison-pen letter writers, dysfunctional relationships, disappearances, secret love affairs and city life, providing the ideal contemporary pop backdrop for Nixey’s distinctive, Queen’s English voice. Whilst BBR songs are often about characters stranded without navigation tools, Nixey’s album occasionally offers an exit route. Check out the artist's website: http://www.sarahnixey.com Track List: 1. Strangelove 2. The Collector meets Comma 3. The Collector meets Infantjoy 4. The Collector meets Pete Davis Other Genres:
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