Fan Death, not to be confused with the South Korean Urban Legend (Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause the death of those inside (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia). Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.)
..is gloriously downcast, sad symphonic disco
Their track "Reunited" smells like a bonfire and tastes like pancakes with blueberry syrup. It makes me feel like I'm on a flight from Berlin to Budapest to meet my highschool exchange student friend that I haven't seen in a decade. It has just enough beat to make me dance in between brush strokes on my new expressionistic painting I'm coughing up.
Hometown: Vancouver, Canada.
The lineup: Dandi and Marta.
The background (via the Guardian): Fan Death are the best new disco act we've heard since we bigged up Hercules & Love Affair in January. The best and the most authentic-sounding: they're not nu rave, or an indie-dance band, or a guitar group using a funk undercarriage. They've got the slightly wonky strings, elegant mid-tempo rhythms and female vocals of disco, recalling the music's golden age – ie. between the release of Donna Summer's Love To Love You Baby in 1975 and the ritual burning of disco records in that baseball stadium in Chicago that signalled the death of disco in 1979. They're a girl duo who recognise that all the best disco records were sung by women, and they sing in the blank, distracted manner of all the finest disco divas. Really, they hardly sing at all – they open their mouths and pout and this spookily, exquisitely blank, almost Teutonic sound comes out.
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