Video: Eliot Sumner, ‘Species’
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Eliot Sumner makes dark, brooding synth-pop, and the 25-year-old daughter of Sting and British actress Trudie Styler is teasing her forthcoming full-length by releasing the “Early Reflections SMPLR” EP this week. Sumner got her start releasing fairly straight-ahead pop as I Blame Coco, but she has graduated into the Euro techno world. Her new songs boast sleek, spare arrangements, and her foreboding, androgynous vocals suggest the apple hasn’t fallen very far from the tree. She’s released music videos for each of the EP’s songs, and the newest one, “Species,” is the strongest. Although it’s hard to tell whether she’s kidding when she explains: “I love science fiction. Most sci-fi involves a new alien species that doctors and scientists probe and observe. I’ve always felt quite alien so the song comes from a very real place.”
||| Watch: The video for “Species”
||| Also: Watch the video for “Dead Arms & Legs”
||| Also: Check out the videos for “After Dark” and “Firewood”
||| Live: Eliot Sumner plays It’s a School Night at Bardot on Monday and opens for On An On at the Echo on Tuesday.
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Gorgeous voice.