Name: Science City
Brand: Parekh and Singh

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PFG196

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Extended format: No

Format detail

Housed in a Gatefold Sleeve.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-04-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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5060100744803

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

PFG196CD

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5060100744827

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Parekh and Singh

Genre GB

Rest of World

Label GB

Peacefrog

Peacefrog is a UK independent label that was started in 1991 by Pete Hutchison and Paul Ballard. They have been releasing various styles of electronic music since their inception. The label was named after the track Peace Frog by The Doors, which can be found on their album Morrison Hotel.

In 1996, Paul Ballard decided to leave Peacefrog Records, leaving Pete Hutchison as the sole owner and operator of the label. Despite this change, Peacefrog continued to thrive and release groundbreaking electronic music.

With over three decades of experience in the industry, Peacefrog has established itself as a respected authority in the world of electronic music. Their diverse roster includes talented artists from different genres within the electronic music spectrum.

Science City is the second LP from dream pop duo Parekh and Singh. If their debut Ocean conjured a lush landscape populated by magical creatures, Science City sees our sharp- suited star-gazers materialising in another dimension - a retro-future world of doctors and scientists, quantum mechanics and plans to unlock the secrets of the “Universosphere”. Parekh’s divine vocals once again backed by vintage synths and Singh’s expertly effervescent percussion. Opener Sunbeam depicts an ‘AI being’ blinking in the sun whilst contemplating its own obsolescence. Down at the Sky is an Escher-like search for truth and Hello is described curiously as “creamy music for advanced nighttime driving on deserted streets”. The ennui-drenched Summer Skin opens a hazy portal to the bucolic, where we find our singer alone with an acoustic guitar, pondering the “momentariness of life”. Be Something’s squelchy synths and xylophone runs channel a rainy day Steely Dan. While Evening Sun soars over circuit board landscapes, with 8-bit laser gun FX pulsing by, Monkey depicts a video game set in a luminous forest biosphere. Following Surgeon’s dissection of the dark heart of the infosphere, the prog-pop splendour of 100 Shadows journeys below “our troubled surface world” to a secret kingdom of synthesisers. For all the talk of “particle physics” and “aerodynamics”, it’s love that sustains life in the dreamlike Fwd Slash. The limpid beauty of soul-pop gem Crystalline brings Science City to a suitably sublime conclusion. With Science City, Parekh and Singh have committed 11 of the freshest, dreamiest pop tracks to the Cosmos and the world suddenly seems somehow lighter, brighter, better.

Science City

Music GB