A post bringing together two artists from the recent past, who both released songs into the world of 2015/ 2016, a decade ago now, and who seem to have flitted in and out ever since.
First, Kid Wave, a four piece indie/ shoegaze band centred around singer/ guitarist Lea Emmery. Lea left her home town of Norkopping, Swden and headed for London, wrote some songs and sent them to Heavenly (who signed her). Under some pressure to do something or return home and pick up her studies Lea recruited a band with guitarist Matthias Bhatt (from Norkopping), bassist Harry Deacon and drummer Serra Petale. The sole Kid Wave album, released by Heavenly, came out in 2015 and was titled Wanderlust. Eleven songs, slow burning, fuzzed up psyche/ indie guitar with vocals by Lea, who sounds magnificently bored at times. For some reason Wanderlust was recorded in Stockport.
All I Want is a beauty, the sort of song that makes you feel like you're twenty one again, unencumbered, Ray Bans and a faded Levis denim jacket, Silk Cut and cassettes, you haven't been home for days.
Lea moved to Los Angeles and recruited a new band and not much happened until an EP in 2023 called Gloom (it looks like Lea and Kid Wave are London based again- or at least were in 2023).
In 2016 Paprika Kinsky,a singer/ musician from Lille, France, released a single Kids Of Your Crime. Driving synth/ guitar pop, slightly psyche, slightly motorik, sugar glazed indie disco, a tinny drum machine and chuggy bass with some sun dappled twinkly melodies on top. Slightly stoned on a sunny afternoon vibes- again Ray Bans and Levis and nothing much to do but loll about, listening to music, waiting for something to happen.
Paprika is an art school graduate and as well as music has made leather harnesses for FKA Twigs and Grimes. She seems to have dipped in and out of music, various electro- pop/ indie- pop one offs and singles, most recently Diamond Queen and Steady Lover, both out on Bandcamp in 2022, and then a five song EP also in 2022 called Young Broke And Fabulous. We're back to Levis, sunglasses, cigarettes and youth again aren't we.
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