I sometimes think of upcoming singers or musicians in categories and Connie Constance fits into the same category as Denai Moore and Sinead Harnett, a singer comfortable in an traditional setting but likely to push forward to more zeitgeist-magnetising sounds. Moore with SBTRKT and Fantastic Mr Fox, Harnett with Disclosure and Snakehips and 20-year-old Constance, with Blue Daisy, the decidely more underground producer who has his own debut coming in September on R&S Records.
‘Stars’, Connie Constance’s debut track, is produced by Blue Daisy and he adds a strange, vocal-pitched edge to what is a straightforward ambient pop song which features somewhat clumsy lyrics that rhyme “park” with “dark” and “live on Mars” with “faster than your mum’s car”.
Despite that, there’s a suggestion of something special lurking in the kineticism of this collaboration. We wait for more but on solid ground, for now.
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The song is released on Black Acre as part of the In The Grass EP.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
