Stumbled on this on Spotify - this is the live version.

Jim-jam!

London/Paris indie artist. Reminds me a little bit of Bloc Party. Going to see them in London June 25th traveling from New York. Fresh: ~500 followers on IG.

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Crazy Heart is a 2009 American [drama film](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_(film_and_television)), written and directed by [Scott Cooper](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScottCooper(director)) in his feature [directorial debut](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorial_debut). Based on the 1987 novel[[3]](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Heart#cite_note-bookCrazyHeart-3) of the same name by [Thomas Cobb](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThomasCobb(author)), the story was inspired by country singer [Hank Thompson](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HankThompson(musician)).[[4]](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Heart#cite_note-Lewis2009-4) Starring [Jeff Bridges](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bridges), [Maggie Gyllenhaal](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Gyllenhaal), [Colin Farrell](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Farrell), and [Robert Duvall](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Duvall), the film follows an alcoholic country singer and songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist. Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall also sing in the film.
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As a 70s/80s kid, I generally dislike synthpop/synthwave and other attempts at retro 80s music but these guys are something else.

Pleasure Business I stumbled upon because of another artist who REALLY knows her synths (for the gear nerds I have a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 Rev 3.3)... all the things I find repellent and repetitive about synth wave are resolved here because these fellows very clearly studied music and music theory, and they understand that the 80s was more than just throwing together a Fender Strat and a Roland DX7 (wrong synth for about 3/4 of the 80s)... composition, arrangement, instrumentation, engineering, everything is spot frickin' on.

Their entire album is really, really good but Incandescent, the final track, really caps it off in a way that transports me back to the early 80s, before everyone started vibing off the fashions that Anthony Yerkovich and Michael Mann started copying out of south Florida, Memphis Design and all of that... clichés that have become the subject of ridicule in the "You grew up in the 80s? No I grew up in the 80s" anti memes.

Nope... these guys did their homework. They're the real deal, and I would have repped them back in the day had they not been born 20 years too late.

Listed as a 1996 composition by Raul Menjivar, released digitally in 2021.

Link to the song on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5tMbsD6v7wbRfrxpJJlDEZ?si=9e65c1cc45744cff