Wondering where they left the car in the picture above is a new pop duo called Wrathschild.
They’re called Simon and Wolfy. Simon is the man and Wolfy is the lady, which might seem obvious but you can never be too careful with these things. Wolfy has made music before, and those of you with good memories will recognise Simon as someone we first wrote about many years ago when we included one of his songs, ‘Resist’, in a thing we used to do called Popjustice Singles Club. (From the vantage point of 2014 we can now see that the so-called ‘Singles Club’ was, in fact, just a load of downloads.)
Back in The Past, Simon told us that he had “an obsession with fat animals”, that he auditioned for Matthew Knowles when he was 14, and that he came from “the same town that brought the world Hanson and Carrie Underwood”. He reappeared in 2010 with a better haircut and a full-length album called ’8Bit Heart’, which he released for free on his website because by this point we were all living in the future.
There was another album after that and Simon’s hair has continued to improve, but by collaborating with Wolfy he seems to have hit on a style that makes a lot of sense. ’Fall Into Love’ sounds enough like Top 40 pop to find an audience, but enough like something new to find its own niche. The duo have spent two years knocking Wrathschild together with producer Ray Reich, and the sound they’ve conjured from the ether is, say Simon and Wolfy, ”anthemic pop made by street kids roaming from LA to Africa to outer space”.
(Translation: it sounds a bit like Ellie Goulding.)
Not exactly a good thing, and labels didn't want to go anywhere near him.
Who needs a male Britney when we've got the actual one? It's awful when "artists" basically try to clone themselves to other more popular ones.
Because he was still different? It was refreshing to have a man tackle pop songs the way the main pop girls on the scene did. His last album was great.
Duos tend to sound cheesy as **** and from the very short snippet we have this doesn't sound much better. I'l still give it a chance because I love Simon and I want him to be successful but I think he should have stayed solo.
I'm not surprised by this at all. I knew he gave away his last album for free for a reason. I'm not sure if it'll be as good as his material on 8-bit Heart which had it's own vibe, but I'm sure it'll be decent. I love the groups name though, and he's forever tying everything about his career in with Illuminati symbolism. I don't know why I like it. For those who don't know what I'm referencing, the duos name is a play on Rothschild.
I'm not surprised by this at all. I knew he gave away his last album for free for a reason. I'm not sure if it'll be as good as his material on 8-bit Heart which had it's own vibe, but I'm sure it'll be decent. I love the groups name though, and he's forever tying everything about his career in with Illuminati symbolism. I don't know why I like it. For those who don't know what I'm referencing, the duos name is a play on Rothschild.
Oh yeah I forgot about that free album. Mostly because it was clearly a horrific compilation of studio rejects.
And I agree about the group's name. I also love their look. One thing Simon always does right is imagery so I hope his first video really delivers.