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ROBBIE & MONA AWESTRUCK

Appropriately emerging on Halloween, dark-pop provocateurs Robbie & Mona share their ghostly new single 'Awestruck'. Opening to rippling, down-tuned guitar, 'Awestruck' seems to haunt itself with subtle delays, uncanny vocal cuts and spidery synthesizers. Referencing old pregnancies and spirits in the womb, it's “inspired by the blood, lust, tactility and transformation felt during menstruation…a sort of turn-on, by the world.’” Contrasting an icy sonic palette with a warm, damp and visceral subject matter, Ellie Gray's ethereal vocals are the cherry on top of an incredibly spooky cake. Out now via Bristolian tastemakers Spinny Nights, 'Awestruck' is a spell-binding new work from one of our favourite (and most underrated) acts. -Holly Mullineaux

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