Meeting at art college in Brighton before gravitating towards the South East London suburbia, 8-piece PARADE are a band that bring together talents in music art, fashion, design (and more besides), and who revel in this multi-disciplinary, multi-genre DIY experiment.
Opening themselves up to the world with a double single release on their self-founded imprint Appointment 1, our first introduction to PARADE offers up as many tantalizing questions as it provides delicious answers.
Recorded by the group in a shipping container in Forest Hill on “cheap, mostly broken equipment”, these songs might convincingly be from different projects. ‘Que?’ gruells, grinds, and grunges, wrestling with its own deep anguish in a squall of swampy fuzz. And while ‘Que?’ burrows away into a dark underground, its other half ‘Picking Flowers’ by contrast floats up into the uncertain expanses of space. A new voice, a female vocalist Fiorella this time, waltzes across a oblique but inviting trail of burning stars, reinventing those more expensive stretches of King Krule’s ‘The Ooz’ and sprinkling in some celestial magic jazz-dust
With both tracks united by this uncanny sense of sprawling, urban mystery, it’s clear PARADE feed off curiosity, abstraction and open questioning; like a philosophical quandary that can never be solved, but always explored. In just a handful of exquisite minutes they’ve already revealed an impressive number of quivers to their bow. Who knows how many more might be yet uncovered.
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