When two of my favourite blogs (namely Illegal Tender and Fucking Dance) start singing the praises of a new duo, only a fool would ignore it. And the band they have been talking about? The Shimmer.
The Shimmer are brother and sister David and Jade Hanks, who you may know as The Mono, but all that really matters is that they make punchy, dark and emotive pop wonders. Now you put them in a Napoleonic fort with ex-Clor genius Luke Smith to record, and you get a diverse mixture of rough and ready rock-pop bliss and driving Depeche Mode-esque electro pop. As hard as I try, I can’t pigeon-hole these two into any genre at all – all I can say is that whatever style you call it – it is pop perfection and catchy as fuck.
Their first single is due to drop in a few months on the consistently impressive Hit Club.