Sarah Nixey made her show business entrance as one third of the darkly glamorous pop group Black Box Recorder. She was in the severe, dreamy centre, singing scheming songs that were deadly serious about trivia, and deeply frivolous about important matters. She sang the songs as if they were bruised lullabies, as if she was soothing the 20th Century to sleep.
Sarah is now solo. She sings smart pop songs that tell heady, half-crazed stories about minds and bodies, flesh and spirit, memories and illusions, desperation and passion. She sings them on her debut solo album Sing, Memory with that tough, tender combination of explicit English detachment and cryptic European emotion that’s all her own.
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