Hifi Sean & David & David McAlmont - Happy Ending (CD)

Release Date: 05/12/23

This is my return to the louche years / Back to the numberless days and the hangovers HiFi Sean & David McAlmont – Happy Ending

The album was recorded at the top of an East London tower block, mixed in a beach hut on Camber Sands and gilded by Bollywood strings is already setting its sights hide and wide, but when the sound and vision encompasses panoramic electronic soul laced with a viscerally personal reaction to the mad times we”re living through, we”re in the presence of something special

The lead single that trails the album, ”All in the World,” is a window onto the duo”s kaleidoscopic rhythm and rhyme, mixing joy and rage with chance and chaos. Over a percolating house/disco hybrid – ”It”s a bit ravey,” Sean reckons – David”s suitably charged lyric suggests he”s surrendering rather than fighting this, ”Catalogue of fools,” as he puts it. ”This is my return to the louche years / Back to the numberless days and the hangovers HiFi Sean & David McAlmont – Happy Ending

Our two British protagonists are Sean Dickson, a former indie star who reinvented himself as an electronic adventurist – musician, DJ, producer – whose last album Ft. featured a stellar line-up of guest vocalists, including Yoko Ono, Fred Schneider (B- 52”s), Alan Vega, Crystal Waters (fronting ”Testify”, which topped the US Billboard dance chart) and David McAlmont – the last, a thrilling singing sensation with an illustrious history, from indie-soul pioneers Thieves and the legendary McAlmont & Butler to purer soul and jazz recordings and a striking collaboration with minimalist composer Michael Nyman.