Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Pop shapeshifter Bianca Scout marks a decade of mutant actions with her first album of darkwave zingers as Marina Zispin in duo with Martyn Reid, chasing a striking Night School debut of 2023 with a full set of elegant, gothic bat dancers RIYL Chris & Cosey, The Other People Place, early Teresa Winter.
Keenly regarded for her work with everyone from Klein to Mica Levi and co’s Curl, and now with producer foil Martyn Reid, Bianca Scout’s metamorphosis into Marina Zispin has resulted in her most broadly appealing and distinctive material in the past 18 months. On ‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ the duo put their best forward for London’s Scenic Route label with a suite of sirene vox glazed to sleek-toned, classically-skooled machine backdrops puckered with piquant hooks and, quite crucially, packing a feline club slinkiness and infectious drive where it matters.
Fans of their first EP, ‘Life and Death - The Five Chandeliers of the Funereal Exorcisms’ will be in their element with this expanded canvas for their work, gauging finer variations of style within a theme as they flit from the Drexciyan arps of ‘Death Must Come’ to the cloistered Teresa Winter-ish drift of ‘The Scythe’ via proper classy strokes of darkwave suss primed for red lit basements and prompting weird dancers to emerge from the shadows to show their best moves.
The balance of Reid’s purring and hook riddled versatility and vocal counterpoints to Scout’s amorphous presence is just spot-on at every well considered turn. Highlights are registered everywhere from ‘Piece of Mind’ with its reversed looped dervishes and nagging jangles, thru the rolling synth-pop pearl ‘Deep Blue’, to the dry-iced downbeats of ‘Venus Decadence’ & ‘Venus Opulence’, and further echoes of Gerald Donald via Chris & Cosey on a standout ‘Penthouse Samba’, reserving a pure goth club silver bullet in ‘Mimes Calling in the Dark’.
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Pop shapeshifter Bianca Scout marks a decade of mutant actions with her first album of darkwave zingers as Marina Zispin in duo with Martyn Reid, chasing a striking Night School debut of 2023 with a full set of elegant, gothic bat dancers RIYL Chris & Cosey, The Other People Place, early Teresa Winter.
Keenly regarded for her work with everyone from Klein to Mica Levi and co’s Curl, and now with producer foil Martyn Reid, Bianca Scout’s metamorphosis into Marina Zispin has resulted in her most broadly appealing and distinctive material in the past 18 months. On ‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ the duo put their best forward for London’s Scenic Route label with a suite of sirene vox glazed to sleek-toned, classically-skooled machine backdrops puckered with piquant hooks and, quite crucially, packing a feline club slinkiness and infectious drive where it matters.
Fans of their first EP, ‘Life and Death - The Five Chandeliers of the Funereal Exorcisms’ will be in their element with this expanded canvas for their work, gauging finer variations of style within a theme as they flit from the Drexciyan arps of ‘Death Must Come’ to the cloistered Teresa Winter-ish drift of ‘The Scythe’ via proper classy strokes of darkwave suss primed for red lit basements and prompting weird dancers to emerge from the shadows to show their best moves.
The balance of Reid’s purring and hook riddled versatility and vocal counterpoints to Scout’s amorphous presence is just spot-on at every well considered turn. Highlights are registered everywhere from ‘Piece of Mind’ with its reversed looped dervishes and nagging jangles, thru the rolling synth-pop pearl ‘Deep Blue’, to the dry-iced downbeats of ‘Venus Decadence’ & ‘Venus Opulence’, and further echoes of Gerald Donald via Chris & Cosey on a standout ‘Penthouse Samba’, reserving a pure goth club silver bullet in ‘Mimes Calling in the Dark’.
Surefire tip!
Pop shapeshifter Bianca Scout marks a decade of mutant actions with her first album of darkwave zingers as Marina Zispin in duo with Martyn Reid, chasing a striking Night School debut of 2023 with a full set of elegant, gothic bat dancers RIYL Chris & Cosey, The Other People Place, early Teresa Winter.
Keenly regarded for her work with everyone from Klein to Mica Levi and co’s Curl, and now with producer foil Martyn Reid, Bianca Scout’s metamorphosis into Marina Zispin has resulted in her most broadly appealing and distinctive material in the past 18 months. On ‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ the duo put their best forward for London’s Scenic Route label with a suite of sirene vox glazed to sleek-toned, classically-skooled machine backdrops puckered with piquant hooks and, quite crucially, packing a feline club slinkiness and infectious drive where it matters.
Fans of their first EP, ‘Life and Death - The Five Chandeliers of the Funereal Exorcisms’ will be in their element with this expanded canvas for their work, gauging finer variations of style within a theme as they flit from the Drexciyan arps of ‘Death Must Come’ to the cloistered Teresa Winter-ish drift of ‘The Scythe’ via proper classy strokes of darkwave suss primed for red lit basements and prompting weird dancers to emerge from the shadows to show their best moves.
The balance of Reid’s purring and hook riddled versatility and vocal counterpoints to Scout’s amorphous presence is just spot-on at every well considered turn. Highlights are registered everywhere from ‘Piece of Mind’ with its reversed looped dervishes and nagging jangles, thru the rolling synth-pop pearl ‘Deep Blue’, to the dry-iced downbeats of ‘Venus Decadence’ & ‘Venus Opulence’, and further echoes of Gerald Donald via Chris & Cosey on a standout ‘Penthouse Samba’, reserving a pure goth club silver bullet in ‘Mimes Calling in the Dark’.
Surefire tip!
Pop shapeshifter Bianca Scout marks a decade of mutant actions with her first album of darkwave zingers as Marina Zispin in duo with Martyn Reid, chasing a striking Night School debut of 2023 with a full set of elegant, gothic bat dancers RIYL Chris & Cosey, The Other People Place, early Teresa Winter.
Keenly regarded for her work with everyone from Klein to Mica Levi and co’s Curl, and now with producer foil Martyn Reid, Bianca Scout’s metamorphosis into Marina Zispin has resulted in her most broadly appealing and distinctive material in the past 18 months. On ‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ the duo put their best forward for London’s Scenic Route label with a suite of sirene vox glazed to sleek-toned, classically-skooled machine backdrops puckered with piquant hooks and, quite crucially, packing a feline club slinkiness and infectious drive where it matters.
Fans of their first EP, ‘Life and Death - The Five Chandeliers of the Funereal Exorcisms’ will be in their element with this expanded canvas for their work, gauging finer variations of style within a theme as they flit from the Drexciyan arps of ‘Death Must Come’ to the cloistered Teresa Winter-ish drift of ‘The Scythe’ via proper classy strokes of darkwave suss primed for red lit basements and prompting weird dancers to emerge from the shadows to show their best moves.
The balance of Reid’s purring and hook riddled versatility and vocal counterpoints to Scout’s amorphous presence is just spot-on at every well considered turn. Highlights are registered everywhere from ‘Piece of Mind’ with its reversed looped dervishes and nagging jangles, thru the rolling synth-pop pearl ‘Deep Blue’, to the dry-iced downbeats of ‘Venus Decadence’ & ‘Venus Opulence’, and further echoes of Gerald Donald via Chris & Cosey on a standout ‘Penthouse Samba’, reserving a pure goth club silver bullet in ‘Mimes Calling in the Dark’.
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Pop shapeshifter Bianca Scout marks a decade of mutant actions with her first album of darkwave zingers as Marina Zispin in duo with Martyn Reid, chasing a striking Night School debut of 2023 with a full set of elegant, gothic bat dancers RIYL Chris & Cosey, The Other People Place, early Teresa Winter.
Keenly regarded for her work with everyone from Klein to Mica Levi and co’s Curl, and now with producer foil Martyn Reid, Bianca Scout’s metamorphosis into Marina Zispin has resulted in her most broadly appealing and distinctive material in the past 18 months. On ‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ the duo put their best forward for London’s Scenic Route label with a suite of sirene vox glazed to sleek-toned, classically-skooled machine backdrops puckered with piquant hooks and, quite crucially, packing a feline club slinkiness and infectious drive where it matters.
Fans of their first EP, ‘Life and Death - The Five Chandeliers of the Funereal Exorcisms’ will be in their element with this expanded canvas for their work, gauging finer variations of style within a theme as they flit from the Drexciyan arps of ‘Death Must Come’ to the cloistered Teresa Winter-ish drift of ‘The Scythe’ via proper classy strokes of darkwave suss primed for red lit basements and prompting weird dancers to emerge from the shadows to show their best moves.
The balance of Reid’s purring and hook riddled versatility and vocal counterpoints to Scout’s amorphous presence is just spot-on at every well considered turn. Highlights are registered everywhere from ‘Piece of Mind’ with its reversed looped dervishes and nagging jangles, thru the rolling synth-pop pearl ‘Deep Blue’, to the dry-iced downbeats of ‘Venus Decadence’ & ‘Venus Opulence’, and further echoes of Gerald Donald via Chris & Cosey on a standout ‘Penthouse Samba’, reserving a pure goth club silver bullet in ‘Mimes Calling in the Dark’.
Surefire tip!