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.