Hanging Freud are a Glasgow based production duo of Paula Borges and Jonathan Skinner. As a duo they combine their somewhat nomadic past with multicultural backgrounds of coming from Sao Paulo (Brazil) and London (UK), into a body of work that is more often than not described as uncompromising and genre defying.
The band joins hands with the Belgian label Spleen+(division of Alfa Matrix, home to artists such as Front 242 and Trisomie 21) for the release of their 7th studio album, "Worship". The album will be released on digital platforms, double CD (with exclusive EP) and coloured LPs. The first single/video "Falling Tooth" is available below, with free download.
“Falling Tooth” evokes the band’s influences ranging from post punk, ethereal, synthgaze, cold wave, ambient pop or yet experimental electronica.
Paula’s vocals are dark, haunting, almost glacial, her enunciation is both plaintive and full of echoing fragile grace. While the cinematic music warps them all in a melancholic ethereal cocoon made of mechanical funeral melodies, icy minimal sequences and suffocating synth atmospheres.
The duo has gained critical praise with albums such as Nowhere and Persona Normal, having performed at Wave Festival in Brazil, as well as having played as a support to artists such as Empathy Test and Zanias in the UK.
“Soft, beautiful female vocals and dark synth textures add up to some great songs from this duo. Deep, passionate, longing music that you will want to play again and again”
- Rodney Orpheus (The Cassandra Complex)
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