Alphabeat – The Spell
New single out Oct 12th
New album out Oct 19th
‘Madonna meets Shannon with Black Box keyboards with a 90s sped-up Scandipop backbeat. It’s amazing’ Popjustice Aug 2009
The wonky power-pop six-piece are back with a new album called ‘The Spell’ released on October 19th through Polydor Records. Alphabeat leave behind their Duran Duran/B52s-esque guise (influences which defined their critically acclaimed debut album ‘This Is Alphabeat’), channelling instead this time the spirit and sound of the best dance hits of the late eighties and early nineties a la Snap! and Black Box.
Alphabeat will release the first single from the new album, a retro dance-pop rave-o-rama also called ‘The Spell’, a week earlier on October 12th.
Alphabeat have mastered the art of taking influences from pop classics of the past and reinterpreting the sound into unique modern smash hit singles. The whole band wrote and produced the entire album, holing themselves up in their basement studio for several months experimenting with old record samples and retro synth programming to create the perfect pop record. They also enlisted the services of six-time Grammy award winning mixer Serban Ghenea (one of the best mixers in the business – Justin Timberlake, Pink, La Roux).
Track titles revealed by the band so far include: ‘The Spell’, ‘DJ’, ‘Heart Failure’, and ‘Chess’.