Revisit our review and stream the Drab Majesty EP on New Music Friday.
“This is 2023, sometimes you just have to go with the weird.”
“You may not have come across Drab Majesty before, but their 2019 album Modern Mirror had a kind of retro-cyber charm, landing in form at the intersection of synth pop, goth and shoegaze, single The Other Side having all the austere frost of the 4AD label’s classic early releases.”
“The vehicle’s backstory is the interesting part: the idea for Drab Majesty came to Andrew Clinco in 2011 while drumming for the Los Angeles-based group Marriages.”
“A solo bedroom project at first, these compositions would eventually develop into a sound self-dubbed as ‘tragic wave’, while after time he adopted the androgynous pseudonym Deb Demure and a look similar to a sci-fi Andy Warhol. To complete the story, he was eventually joined by keyboardist Alex Nicolaou, who performs as the character Mona D.”