Name: Fruit Juice
Brand: Happy Meals

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Limited edition

Release date

2016-05-26

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Forte

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1 / 12" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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8 Track Digipak with 2 bonus remixes.

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Artist

Happy Meals

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Night School

Night School is a Glasgow-based music label that has been making waves in the industry since its inception. Founded by [a2776288], this label has quickly become known for its diverse roster of talented artists and unique sound.

With a focus on promoting underground and experimental music, Night School has established itself as a leading force in the independent music scene. The label's releases span across various genres, including indie rock, electronic, folk, and more.

What sets Night School apart from other labels is their commitment to nurturing emerging talent. They provide a platform for *up-and-coming* artists to showcase their work and gain recognition within the industry. This dedication to supporting new voices has earned them a loyal fan base and critical acclaim.

Fruit Juice is the first new recorded material from Glasgow-based electronic avant pop duo Happy Meals since the intense aftermath of Apéro, their debut album which garnered a place in the Scottish Album Of The Year final 10. Shorter in scale but sharpened and expanded, Fruit Juice takes the tender experimental beginnings and unabashed pop moments of their first LP into undiscovered countries glowing with possibility. Since Apéro's release at the end of 2014, Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook have toured the globe, from Moscow to Bombay via various European festivals, and have honed their dynamics live, in the moment, improvising and twisting the beat into new forms. As their live show has become more visceral and cinematic, Fruit Juice documents the duo's new confidence. Run Around opens the EP, with a sun-soaked tropicalia as conceived by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Rodden's vocals warped into wordless peons to the rising sun. La Labas re-aquaints the listener to Rodden's Franco-Gallic tendancies, but this time Happy Meals reveal a sparse melancholy, with spacious percussion and synth fragments giving way to one of the group's most immediate moments to date. If You Want Me Now is pop music, pure and from the source. Alternating between French and English, Rodden recreates the live persona that has emerged since the group's beginnings; an unrestrained performer bringing the innate sensuality beneath Happy Meals' surface exploding into the light. Cook's production work here sounds fresh and classic simultaneously, a glorious Jacno tribute enthralled to House music and Italo Disco. Fruit Float, opening Side 2, draws us back up into the cosmos, with arpeggiated synths from Cook's synth arsenal duetting with a flute solo before Suivez Moi delivers another pop song worthy of eternal repeat, a slice of electro not unlike the heights of Dare!-era Human League. Seductive and irresistible, it precedes the biggest step-up in Happy Meals' recorded output, the acid-fried Now That You Have Me: ostensibly a high-BPM remix of If You Want Me Now that hints at the insanity of the final moments of a Happy Meals live show.

12" - Released as a limited to 500 12" featuring marble-painted artwork hand-made by the band, Fruit Float precedes Happy Meals' 2nd full length album recorded on the Azores Archipelago. Each Fruit Float sleeve is different and features a digital download.

CD - 8 Track Digipak with 2 bonus remixes.

Fruit Juice

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