Dancing With Shadows

Causeway are Marshall Watson and Allison Rae, an Idaho based duo who have got an EP out next month on Chris Massey's Sprechen label (a Manchester label which operates straight outta Stretford, just up the road from here). Allison sang on Chris' The Thief Of Time album last year, and after a few releases on Italians Do It Better Causeway have made their way to Sprechen for this EP and a forthcoming album. The EP features the song Dancing  With Shadows, a huge piece of 80s synth- pop/ goth- dance action, that pulses and throbs like some fusion of New Order, The Cure and Depeche Mode, the soundtrack to a nightclub scene in a 1986 film that went straight to VHS but now looks like a lost classic. 'Tonight I'm dancing with shadows', Alison sings, 'To the beat of my heart'.  

As well as the single the EP comes with four remixes- Marshall's Club Mix is available to listen to now at Bandcamp, an amped up, ramped up, wall of synths remix. Bagging Area favourites Hardway Bros are there too as is Kiaki, and Chris Massey has done his own remix, the 303 deployed to maximum effect, a mid- tempo synth acid/ techno chugger with rubber band bass, Detroit to Stretford via Idaho.