Decisive Pink (Kate Nv And Angel Deradoorian) - Ticket To Fame

Released: 07/04/23

What happens when two of our most imaginative and gifted avant-electro-pop producers team up? A big, mind-tickling slab of awesome, obviously. Said artists, Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV (AKA Decisive Pink), have, with their much-anticipated debutTicket to Fame, created an album of such vision, invention, grin-inducing melodicism, andtaste, that despite only being half way through 2023, I'm tempted to call it my favourite weirdo electro-pop album of the year. That its only rival for this coveted and rarified distinction so far this year is Kate NV's incredible and absolutely bananasWow, released a couple of months ago, tells you everything about the ability of the duo.

While it's easy to pinpoint some ofTicket to Fame's influences “ Laurie Anderson, Kraftwerk,Brian Eno and David Byrne'sMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts, andHildur Guðnadóttir's revered former group Múm“synthesising all of them into something fresh and original is certainly not; but then, few electronic composers today are as brilliant as Deradoorian and NV.