- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '19.7.24.'
Our Rating:
Scorpio Leisure's self-titled debut album was made at Rusty's Den in Edinburgh and feature ex members of Fire Engines, Win and Brian Jonestown Massacre among others. They are Hettie Noir, Ricky Maymi, Coco Whitson, Russell Burn and Mungo Carswell.
The album opens with Serpentine a hushed beginning as the synths lure you into Scorpio Leisure's world, surely the typewriter percussive edges will get you wondering, what else is being thrown into this filmy mix.
The album's first single Apology is next, this slow goth synth pop song with rich vocals from Hettie Noir, seems to be waiting an eternity for the Apology she believes she is entitled to; Guitars become more distended, give in and say sorry to her, you never know what reward might be waiting for you.
Running On The Spot is No Wave jazz soliloquy to the kind of freak that runs on the spot all day at the gym or in the park like a performative act, while claiming to be a go-getter, while dressed in a shell suit, going nowhere fast as usual.
Feral Life is the way they live, no one will tell them to fit in, musically aiming to play all the wrong notes at the right time, no not on your Nelly they won't take it anymore, they have to have the freedom to misbehave, or is it just behaving like they want to.
Vibrate And Shake sort of modernises Torch Song’s sound as Jill Farquar adds operatic weird backing vocals, slipping from behind the wall, dank beats, dark dancehall guitar skewers, shaking like weekend comedown on a Tuesday morning, textured vibrations making you need to do it all again.
Pulse Beat modelesque synth wonderment, close whispered sex beat vocals, fetishistic dungeon dark desires, drawing you into the essential blackout void to total immersion in the Pulse Beat meeting Stained Sheets.
Fanzine will they put Scoprpio Leisure on the wall of fanzine infamy, will they interview them without them buying ad space, does your zine come with furry stickers, can they turn themselves into your clone, do you want to be all Bubblegum Slut or are you more in the Starzone.
Parasite takes aim at the sort of pervert who wears double denim, like this reviewer has for the last 4 decades, so I know I disgust Hettie in more ways than one, she tells me to call my mummy, yeah I am still that teenage boy with the odd fantasies of running her life, like that would ever happen, unless I had pockets full of powders, she would still wonder if I was that double denim wearing serial killer she dreams is stalking her.
Don't Get Pulled Under find a way through the crisis that is living in the 2020's will things ever be ok again, the gauzy vocals worrying about how to carry on, faced by dark synth tones worrying you, whatever you do to change things it still seems to get worse, but if you don't put the love out there you will never get the love back.
The album closes with Driving a song that namechecks a list of places they should be appearing on tour at, as the motoric beats get subsumed by the buzzing synths, the onrush of another fun night out that end with you Driving home through the night.
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