New Release from Gorgon City "Sirens" On Virgin Records / Universal Music New Zealand

U.K duo Gorgon City release their debut full-length album. Sirens features the singles 'Ready For Your Love Ft. MNEK', 'Here For You Ft. Laura Welsh' and the new single 'Unmissable Ft. Zac Abel'.

The story of Gorgon City is a perfect microcosm of the story of how 21st century dance music coming in from the cold. Kye Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott are two young men who each separately jumped in to clubland's deepest and choppiest waters (at a time when halfway-decent club culture was as fragmented as it's been the last two decades and entering a period of extreme marginalisation) and learned to swim the hard way. Since then they've become skilled navigators of its currents, observed as streams converged and split again, and more by accident than design were perfectly prepared to ride its current waves of mainstream popularity.

With a deft history of music making behind them individually as Foamo & RackNRuin, once Kye and Matt joined forces as Gorgon City things quickly began to snowball at a barely comprehensible rate. “Because we each had a bit of reputation built up,” says Kye, “the first gigs we got as Gorgon City were pretty big festival ones, and it's just gone on from there.” Their experiments with vocalists showed that they were as quick and proficient with real song structures as they were with beat-making, and had a knack of bringing out the best in collaborators. They quickly got the backing of the mighty Black Butter Records – who'd already released a couple of Matt's RackNRuin tracks (the first of which featured Jessie Ware) – just as that label's explosion into the mainstream, spearheaded by Rudimental, began in earnest.

Further key features on the album include Maverick Sabre top and tailing the record, Katy B, Erik Hassle and Jennifer Hudson.

Sirens is a brilliantly cohesive piece of music that perfectly reflects the exciting UK dance pop climate we find ourselves in for 2014 - with Gorgon City firmly at the helm.

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