Guest Singer compose anti-motivational anthems for the post-truth generation. A Lynch-esque murkiness inhabits the world of the Doncaster outliers, who dexterously peel back the façade of the everyday to reveal the eerie in the intimately familiar. In an industry landscape hell bent on requiring artists to feed the dopamine fuelled fruit machine of algorithmic exactness, Guest Singer scuttle along the belt of scrub land between desolate wilderness and dark suburbia. The crux of Guest Singer lies in the delivery. While drab optimism and gallows humour memes intersect newsfeeds as a way of trying to come to terms with the distressing ebbs and flows of the day-to-day, ‘Bubblegum Scum EP’ is less optimistic. The deliberate honesty of the collection is an attempt to delve into the brutal nature of the music industry and its faux, passive aggressive proclamation to kindness, fairness and equality. There is no defeat in the realization of how things are as evidenced by the Instagram accounts PR Music Memes, Radio Plugging Memes, Indielabelmemes – source material that informs the EP. Like breaking free from a cult, Many find contact with others who have had similar experiences important and validating. The beauty here is being content in realism.
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