Vanity Fairy

If you’re always in the market for the next camp banger from someone who looks like they know their way around a disco ball, Vanity Fairy has you covered.” DIY

"A post-disco bliss-scape" Clash

“a triumphant injection of joy” The Most Radicalist

"Revelatory and fresh...pushing the backing track/singing form towards the bounds of dadaistic performance art." Hard of Hearing

Ahead of performance at the DIY Magazine Hello 24 showcase series and a string of UK tour dates with Pip Blom in February, self-professed "high priestess of underground disco-pop" Vanity Fairy shares sultry disco-noir of ‘Jungle Jim’

Side stepping the kitsch-disco hedonism of her recent output (and of November release ‘Love of My Life’), ‘Jungle Jim’ takes a sensuous dip into soupy, psychedelic waters. With fractured, oblique lyricism (‘You're the man / father within me, chosen / heaven could love me / I don’t want her shoals of god inside’”) lilting above a seductive, ice-cool samba, Vanity Fairy’s distinctive Bee-Gees-like vocals snake through more mysterious terrain than ever before, where tranquility and unease are never too far away, as Vanity herself explains:

: "Jungle Jim was one of those songs that just came out more or less in one whole piece, or at least the vocal did. And I like that it happened that way because the instrumental, (most of which my brother and co-writer/ producer Sam E. Yamaha came to me with) feels very instinctual to me - very dream-like and languorous… and also very jungle-y, at least to my ears; It sounds so calm and dreamy but there’s something really uneasy and unsettling happening in the music underneath everything. Not that the song’s about that, it’s just really the mood of the song to me..

The noises and few fragments of intelligible words I sang in the first take I wanted to keep, so my brother and I set about trying to remain as faithful as possible to those original sounds with the words we used. So the lyrics have an unconscious quality, and a kind of retroactively imposed automatism - if that’s not a contradiction (which I think it is). I like how fractured and fragile the language ends up being. And I like how un-authored it feels. Like I went into the song and disappeared.”

Performing at Left Of The Dial, Sŵn and Mutations last Autumn, Vanity Fairy's incessant gigging schedule over the past 2 years - as well as making her an established cult favourite in the London grassroots scene and beyond - has seen her support the latest and greatest acts to grace the UK's alternative/indie scene in recent times. With dates with Pip Blom penciled for February 2024, Vanity Fairy has already performed alongside the likes of Warmduscher, Katy J Pearson, Lime Garden, Let's Eat Grandma, Girl Ray, Audiobooks, Opus Kink, Langkamer, Mandrake Handshake, Baba Ali...the list goes on.

‘Jungle Jim’ comes hot on the heels of latest cut ‘Love of My Life’, and press backing from the likes of DIY, Clash, Dummy, BBC Radio 6 (New Music Fix/Amy Lamé), Hard of Hearing, The Most Radicalist, Hideous Mag and Post-Brexit Pop.