FASSINE RELEASEd THEIR FOURTH AVANT POP ALBUM ‘NEVER TO HEAVEN’ on JULY 28th.
Sweeping away all themes of their previous album about “the hero”, here is an album about “the ego”. Fassine explore the unique life of Bobby Fischer with track ‘Fifty-Move Fools’ and delve into tHE divisive personality of PRESIDENT Nixon with ‘Priest to Pardon’. Lead single ‘Drerty’ is an anthem for ‘’self-appointed heroism’’, a stinging look at the modern obsession of self. Fassine say of the album’s themes “it’s not meant to be didactic; it’s meant to open conversation... often with tongue firmly in cheek”.
Visually, THE ALBUM IS accompanied by a series of portraits from photographer Jimmy King,
Fassine made a name for themselves with their icy, cinematic take on electronic music for ‘Dialectik’ - a debut that saw them gain praise from the likes of Spin, Q, Clash, The Independent, The Guardian, BBC 6 & more.
With a keen ear for the cinematic, their songs have featured as the backdrop of dramas including; Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw, Fox’s ‘Lucifer’, Sky Atlantic’s 'The Following’, NBC’s ‘Good Girls’ & MORE.
The band has been recognised for their industrial re-working of ‘That Wave’, (XTC) with their version featured on the documentary ‘This Is Pop’ out now on SKY ARTS.
THEIR THIRD ALBUM ‘Forge’ (2020) SAW them paying tribute to heroes on the fringes of society, PEOPLE LIKE HANNAH HAUXWELL, ON TRACK ‘PERFECTLY PLANNED’ AND WORKING WOMEN OF WW2 ON ‘HELLSTO’,
second album ‘Gourami’ (2017) featured the single ‘Feather Jesus’, a track about ‘‘death AND loss, how people cope and embrace it’’. Single ‘Ursa Minor’ is an ode to David Bowie and Palio, a tribute to the patriotic race in Sienna.
THEIR Debut ALBUM ‘Dialectik’ features ‘Sunshine’, a single which came with three distinct remixes and set the tone perfectly for an album that was inspired by British TV dramas like ’Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ and ‘Edge of Darkness’.
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”precision earworm avant-pop’’
— MOJO
“Sunshine is an eerie and ominous introduction to the intriguing Fassine... Sarah Palmer’s vocals are translucent against the dramatic atmosphere of cryptic synths and severe bass...”
— SPIN
“Fassine have a restrained yet wonderfully defined palette. Oppressive yet artful music of an electronic bent, the three-piece sit in a wonderfully British lineage of pop futurists.”
— Clash Magazine
“Forge' is an intriguingly cinematic, psychedelic art-rockin’ work that should prick the ear of curious listeners.”
— Prog Magazine
“Sonically there’s a real sense of chiaroscuro on Forge, swelling, airy moments of light that battle and merge with grainy undercurrents of shadows and doom”
— Aesthetica
“Palio' is a gorgeous, minimalist track - think Portishead's downbeat disquiet on Dummy with a touch of UNKLE's cinematic grandeur.”
— Independent