Fantasy EP, by Es

Fantasy EP

by Es

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1.	Emergency 03:15	buy track
2.	Too Late 02:30	buy track
3.	Unreal 02:26	buy track
4.	Swallowed Whole 02:02	buy track

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Artist: Es
Title: Fantasy

Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number: UTR153
Formats: 7” / DIGITAL
Release Date: Friday 7 April

Track listing:

SIDE A
01. Emergency
02. Too Late

SIDE B
03. Unreal
04. Swallowed Whole

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Vinyl: Limited 180g neon blue vinyl (600 copies) + risograph insert

If Es’ debut album for Upset the Rhythm explored the “tension between intent and interpretation”, the London group’s 2023 EP, ‘Fantasy’, constructs a coda for resistance against the distorted gaze. A four-track contact-high anxiety amid fact and facsimile, the new release attempts to define a sound that still resonates in an increasingly confused public theatre, where cerebral dreams manifest in corrupt fascination.

Echoing the legendary Pylon or the later, disco-inspired releases from PIL, tracks like ‘Emergency’ and ‘Unreal’ blend the band’s established disjunctive style of gothic restlessness with brighter, poppy, and danceable tones. These stylistically unwind in transition with the increasingly claustrophobic pieces like ‘Too Late’ and ‘Swallowed Whole’, syncopating a parallel design of the frantic and the fashionable.

Paired with a lyrical intricacy which emits a desire to break the fetish of false representation, ‘Fantasy’ reminds us that worthy punk records, like any manifesto of neurotic suspicion, balance testimonial, speculative-fiction, and social critique. Indebted to the past but pointed sharply to the future, Es deconstruct our modern wreckage of personhood and self-deceit, granting a sense of solidarity inside alienation. Inside ‘Fantasy’ we visualize our own estrangement, and it is only when this mirror fades that we find the tools to fight back.

Will Deacon, 2023.

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released April 7, 2023

Recorded and Mixed by Matt Green at Head Cold Recording
Mastered by Daniel Husayn
Artwork by Musheto Fernandez
Images by Chiara Gambuto

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