Wild pop and improv disco trio SDF’s Broken Glass EP
‘BROKEN GLASS’
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“EERILY BRILLIANT ELECTRONIC POP MUSIC” – THE QUIETUS
Wild pop and improv disco trio SDF return with the Broken Glass EP, the follow-up to their immersive debut album 2022’s Rhythm of the Rubicon. It’s led by the title track ‘Broken Glass’ – an abridged re-working of an acid-dripping machine folk music opus from Rhythm of the Rubicon. The EP additionally features three previously unreleased tracks, ‘Dinosaur’, ‘Playing Games With Equality’ and ‘Everybody Tells Me I Had A Good Time Last Night’. SDF will play live at Iklectik in London on Friday, February 10, tickets on sale now.
“‘Broken Glass’ is about ageing and thrill seeking and 21st century alienation,” explains SDF’s Oliver Marchant, “The first verse deals in inner city claustrophobia and its relief by any means to hand. But how far can you run from yourself? The second verse details an attempt to escape the city with an assault on Mount Snowdon on Adam’s stag do in a race against intoxication and the gathering darkness. We made the summit, but at what cost? It’s also at some level, about friendship; with synthesizers and a borrowed 808, machine folk music, stoking the eternal fire, community survival against the malevolent forces beyond.”
Forged in the nightclubs of Newcastle and now based around the marshes of Northeast London, SDF are Adam Parkinson (AKA Dane Law) and Oliver Marchant (AKA RKB Vitesse, whose single ‘Pledge Pyschodrama’ was released on Lost Map in 2021, and who runs the micro tape label Vitamin Concept together with Bas Jan’s Serafina Steer) together with quantum physicist Lucy Whalley. SDF’s third album 2022’s Rhythm of the Rubicon saw the group reunite after time spent on solo projects and other life matters. Their debut album Judas was released in 2015 on Good Food Tapes, followed by Alana in 2017 via Psykick Dancehall.
Rhythm Of The Rubicon was conceived at a PRAH studios residency by the sea. Every day, or rather every night, stories around such subjects as the yellow vest protests, the fall of Caesar, future energy collapse and synthetic sugar substitutes were set to machine drums, lysergic synthesisers, and sub heavy basslines, whilst Oliver and Lucy blended storytelling with dubbed-out mantras to the coming night. “SDF is friends playing their relationship to each other and to time,” writes Oliver. “SDF is machine folk. SDF is a vision glimpsed in a mist. SDF is a state of mind. SDF is a way of life.”
About SDF’s brand new Broken Glass EP, Oliver writes:
“The other three tracks originated from the same sessions at PRAH studios, Margate, that produced Rhythm Of The Rubicon. Extended, nocturnal machine jams that time has added to. ‘Dinosaur’ in part deals with the destruction of social housing around Elephant and Castle in London (where SDF rehearse). ‘Playing Games With Equality’ is possibly libellous so we can’t say who it’s about. ‘Everybody Tells Me I Had A Good Time Last Night’ comes from a party Lucy went to in Wales. It does what it says on the tin…”