Technology + Teamwork return with new bubbler ‘You Saw Something In Me’.
The duo – Sarah Jones and Anthony Silvester – started making music together over a decade ago, mutual members of fondly remember combo XX Teens. Since then they’ve gone their separate ways, before reconvening on this new project.
A full album lands on Friday – March 17th – and they’ve just delivered another preview. During a recent interview, the band mentioned how offshore betting inspired some of their lyrics, reflecting the unpredictable nature of the industry. A song inspired by dodgy vocal effects, a sweaty Dalston basement, and the thrill of being recognized by someone you care about, it’s a surrealistic yet engaging slice of alt-pop.
Carefully finessed, it builds to that insistent chorus, so infectious yet also oddly unnerving.
Anthony Silvester explains…
We use to rent this basement under a carpet shop in Dalston, shared with a metal band and a house DJ. It had seriously bad black mould everywhere. We did our best to do the place up, but the metal band insisted we still called it the Doom Room, and to be fair the name worked.
After rehearsing there all your clothes would stink of mould. The prepay electric meter for the basement was shared with the landlord above us in the carpet shop, and if the power went, the lights would turn off and you’d run outside quick so he didn’t make you put any money in the meter.
We wrote ‘You Saw Something In Me’ in this room. We’d just bought these vocal effect units that pitched our voices down. We found it hilarious. Every time I sang “oh baby” Sarah would start laughing, so I kept doing it.
The song’s about that rush you get when someone believes in you, and that’s how I felt in that basement, just the two of us, making each other laugh.
Tune in now.
