This rising London duo will be warmly received by the ranks of the disaffected
“Theresa May, do you know how it feels to count days and hours till payday?” So goes London duo Farai’s single This Is England, a foreboding, state-of-the-nation address that berates the “toffs” over a minimal drum kick and scathing static – skeletal post-punk with the confrontational freeform intoning of a beat poet. It probably isn’t the kind of stuff that’ll get to No 1, but their bleak punctuation of Brexit Britain updates post-punk for millennial malaise.
Farai are Farai Bukowski-Bouquet and Tony “Tone” Harewood, whose origin story couldn’t be any more east London if you served it open on a brioche bun. She was a jazz singer and part of Shop Floor Sessions, a collective of musicians and poets who squatted a shop where they hosted jam nights. He was a musician in various indie-pop bands, until they met up at Dalston’s Gillett Square and spent the night recording at Harewood’s home studio.
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