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Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Hot Pink Sauce Shares Woozy “Don’t You Wake Me”

Hastings, UK-based musicians Evi Vine and Steven Hill have worked together in several different projects together, including EVI VINE and Silver Moth, a collective founded by Mogwai‘s Stuart Braithwaite.

The duo’s latest project together Hot Pink Sauce released their debut single, the  A Storm in Heaven-era The Verve-meets-Slow Air-era Still Corners and Beach House-like “Feel.”

Hot Pink Sauce closes out the year with “Don’t You Wake Me,” a woozy bit of synth pop anchored around Evi Vine’s expressive delivery and primal drumbeats that sounds like a synthesis of Beach House, Stevie Nicks and Kate Bush that evokes the conflicting sensation of heartbreak, loss and resiliency, which comes in the aftermath of a bitter end of broken relationship.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Hot Pink Sauce Shares Brooding and Cinematic “Feel”

Hot Pink Sauce is new music project created by acclaimed Hastings, UK-based musicians Evi Vine and Steven Hill. Vine and Hill have worked together in a couple of projects, including the ethereal, post-rock outfit EVI VINE, whose last single featured The Cure‘s Simon Gallup. They were also members of Silver Moth, a collective founded by Mogwai‘s Stuart Braithwaite that released their full-length debut last year through Bella Union/PIAS Recordings.

The Hastings-based duo’s Hot Pink Sauce debut “Feel” is a brooding and cinematic track built around shimmering and swirling reverb-drenched shoegazer-like guitar textures and thunderous, tribal drumming serving as a lush and velvety bed for Vine’s plaintive and expressive delivery. “Feel,” to this critic’s ear reminds me a bit of a synthesis of A Storm in Heaven-era The Verve, Slow Air-era Still Corners and Beach House.