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Petit Mal
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Description: | 7" on Difficult Fun |
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| Format: | 7" (vinyl) | |
| Genre(s): | Electro/EBM | |
| Label: | Difficult Fun | |
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£3.09
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
“The most interesting and forward looking artists on the avant electronic underground pop scene!” - Rough Trade. “The way Melanie Gilligan snakes herself sharp-tongued and seductively mono-tonal through the futuristic manifesto 'I of the Law' is simply brutally beguiling and on top of it unique.” - Terror Verlag Crisis in the Credit System - the first (and only) great pop song about the financial crisis. Ripples of distortion and droning electronics, merge with collapsing sparse and spooky vocals creating an addictive electro anthem totally removed from contemporaries. Petit Mal, AKA Ben Seymour and Melanie Gilligan, fuse '80s synth pop and '00s electronica to create emotional, intelligent and irresistible new music, surreal, poetic, oblique and compelling. Crisis in the Credit System collides a Pet Shop Boys-style pop drama with early Neu!-like experimentalism, autistic repetition and crescendoes. Crisis in the Credit System was written two years before the credit crunch, when Petit Mal became obsessed with the mysteries of the global financial system. Given the increasing role of economics in culture and of culture in Britain's economy, Melanie decided it would be interesting to make a pop song based on a prophecy of financial apocalypse. Although the duo don't claim to be financial visionaries, the song seems set to capture the zeitgeist. Crisis in the Credit System will be featured in a 4-part fictional film of the same name that Melanie has scripted and directed, released online September 29th. Making the connections between 'Northern Rock' and 'Das Kapital', the film fuses philosophy and The Financial Times with an original soundtrack and extra dialogue from Ben. Ben and Melanie already have a cult following as members of London musical collective Antifamily. Excited critics and devoted fans described their debut album as an instant classic. Similar accolades can be expected for the forthcoming album from Petit Mal to be released later this year.
