The time is then. Well, not really as the time is actually now yet Bunny X have nonetheless jumped on that destination eighties retrowave train and paid the full fare with their album “Love On A High Floor”.
Whilst the destination for Bunny X - Abigail Gordon and Jenny Bates – is most definitely the past, their musical journey stops at more stations than you might expect for the price of the ticket. The sequencer and the analogue drum machine sound are indeed present and correct to provide the context – the sound of a city from a time decades before today – but the stories behind the songs are as much of now as they would have been of yesteryear and, to further please your ears, there are some really rather endearing vocal harmonies to keep you in your seat as matters of the heart and part time urban isolation unfold in front of a backdrop of red lipstick and sparkly dresses.
Glamour is, of course, forever and it would seem that glamour, despite the best efforts of our corporate marketing masters, seems more easily found in the past than it is in the present and, even if you have no comprehension of the concept of a VHS era soundtrack, Bunny X have created a stylish reminder for you of a time when being one of the night people was all that you would need to put your aspirations and angst into context. It would be easy to dismiss “Love On A High Floor” as just another exercise in stylistic revisionism but that would be something of an injustice as these eleven songs have a consistency and lyrical strength that suggests a definite artistic vision. Whether or not that vision is touched by intentional irony is open to question yet it is perhaps that very uncertainty that makes it easy to stay with Bunny X all the way to the end of the line.
Available from Bandcamp and on made to order vinyl and CD from ElasticStage.