Album artwork for Two by Dubstar
Album artwork for Two by Dubstar
Album artwork for Two by Dubstar

Two is the second album from Dubstar since Sarah Blackwood and Chris Wilkie reunited in the mid-2010s, and the first since their seminal 90s albums Disgraceful and Goodbye to be produced by New Order and Pet Shop Boys collaborator Stephen Hague. This reunion with Hague, ushers in a record of full-spectrum megapop, swooning synthesised orchestras, acutely observed kitchen sink dramas, and outright bangers. A mere 26 years since Stars and Not So Manic Now announced them as something disturbing and different in the pop firmament, Dubstar are themselves again – only more so.

That 2018 project Dubstar One was a low key affair, two old friends dipping a toe back in the water, but it provided a new way of working. Every other Friday Chris would send Sarah recorded ideas to her new home in Hastings and she would create lyrics and melodies which, back and forth, grew into songs. As a blueprint for the album Two, the process stood them in good stead when the pandemic hit.

Chris had reconnected with Stephen Hague and “literally had the train tickets booked” to his studio when lockdown happened. But the band developed such a telepathic relationship with Hague that they were able to complete Two entirely remotely.

The result is a record of bewitching, cinematic scale that connects Dubstar’s original thematic universe – the madness under the surface of the suburban, the way that women are forced to fit themselves to the shape of the world and not vice versa – to a new, older and wiser, post-COVID reality.

LP

A1. Token

A2. I Can See You Outside

A3. Tectonic Plates

A4. Lighthouse

A5. Tears

B1. Hygiene Strip

B2. Blood

B3. Social Proof

B4. Kissing To Be Unkind

B5. Perfect Circle


CD
1.Token
2. I Can See You Outside
3. Tectonic Plates
4. Lighthouse
5. Tears
6. Hygiene Strip
7. Blood
8. Social Proof
9. Kissing To Be Unkind
10. Perfect Circle

Bonus only for 2CD:

1. Hygiene Strip (Extended)

2. I Can See You Outside (Extended)

3. Tectonic Plates (Extended)

4. Token (Extended)

5. Blood (Remix)

6. I Can See You Outside (Bright Light Bright Light Remix)

7. Tectonic Plates (Dressing Up Extended Mix)

8. Token (Widescreen)

9. I Can See You Outside (Widescreen)

Dubstar

Two

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Album artwork for Two by Dubstar
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Dubstar

Two

Northern Writes
Album artwork for Two by Dubstar
CD

£6.99

Released 06/05/2022Catalogue Number

NW9CD

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Album artwork for Two by Dubstar
LP +

£14.99

White
Released 06/05/2022Catalogue Number

NW9VW

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Album artwork for Two by Dubstar
LP

£14.99

Black
Released 06/05/2022Catalogue Number

NW9

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Two is the second album from Dubstar since Sarah Blackwood and Chris Wilkie reunited in the mid-2010s, and the first since their seminal 90s albums Disgraceful and Goodbye to be produced by New Order and Pet Shop Boys collaborator Stephen Hague. This reunion with Hague, ushers in a record of full-spectrum megapop, swooning synthesised orchestras, acutely observed kitchen sink dramas, and outright bangers. A mere 26 years since Stars and Not So Manic Now announced them as something disturbing and different in the pop firmament, Dubstar are themselves again – only more so.

That 2018 project Dubstar One was a low key affair, two old friends dipping a toe back in the water, but it provided a new way of working. Every other Friday Chris would send Sarah recorded ideas to her new home in Hastings and she would create lyrics and melodies which, back and forth, grew into songs. As a blueprint for the album Two, the process stood them in good stead when the pandemic hit.

Chris had reconnected with Stephen Hague and “literally had the train tickets booked” to his studio when lockdown happened. But the band developed such a telepathic relationship with Hague that they were able to complete Two entirely remotely.

The result is a record of bewitching, cinematic scale that connects Dubstar’s original thematic universe – the madness under the surface of the suburban, the way that women are forced to fit themselves to the shape of the world and not vice versa – to a new, older and wiser, post-COVID reality.

LP

A1. Token

A2. I Can See You Outside

A3. Tectonic Plates

A4. Lighthouse

A5. Tears

B1. Hygiene Strip

B2. Blood

B3. Social Proof

B4. Kissing To Be Unkind

B5. Perfect Circle


CD
1.Token
2. I Can See You Outside
3. Tectonic Plates
4. Lighthouse
5. Tears
6. Hygiene Strip
7. Blood
8. Social Proof
9. Kissing To Be Unkind
10. Perfect Circle

Bonus only for 2CD:

1. Hygiene Strip (Extended)

2. I Can See You Outside (Extended)

3. Tectonic Plates (Extended)

4. Token (Extended)

5. Blood (Remix)

6. I Can See You Outside (Bright Light Bright Light Remix)

7. Tectonic Plates (Dressing Up Extended Mix)

8. Token (Widescreen)

9. I Can See You Outside (Widescreen)