We’ve got a lot of history with Steven Horry, stretching back to his days in shouty lo-fi mischief-makers 586, then as frontman of The 18 Carat Love Affair – he even played in our own Christmas covers band for a Joyzine show at Brixton Windmill many moons ago. More recently he’s been focussing his creative energies on graphic novels, including the excellent Double-D, a collaboration with Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos, but it’s great to see him back behind a guitar – this time working with Berlin-based singer/songwriter Mark Fernyhough.
‘Nouveau’ is the pair’s second single, drenched in reverb and backed by a video that features a girl skater gang weaving their way across the beautiful brutalist backdrop of the German capital.