Sugarland cover

Sugarland

Released

Having had some degree of major label success in the early 80s, new wave / synth pop band Kissing the Pink’s contact with the acid house scene altered them utterly. Coming seven years after its predecessor, their third album in 1993 is utterly unrecognisable. Where previously they’d made spiky postpunk, then MTV-friendly glossy pop, Sugarland is all beads and kaftans on a secluded Ibiza beach. Soul II Soul beats, global music samples, swooshing and whirling synths: it’s odd, blissful and gorgeous. They’d never look back – after this they contentedly stayed on the weird electronic fringes.

Joe Muggs

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