Short-Haired Domestic

A Song in Japanese About Trying Things Out Before Committing

A Song in Hindi for Insomniacs

A Song in Bulgarian For Lovers of Gin

A Song in Latin About the Importance of Comfortable Shoes

A Song in Spanish Addressed to Men Who Drive Big Cars

A Song in German Concerning Gardens and Goodbyes

A Song in Yoruba About Leaves, Memory and Time

A Song in Italian Saluting His Mother

A Song in Danish in Which There is Much Discontent

A song in Hindi for insomniacs

A song in Latin about the importance of comfortable shoes

A song in German concerning gardens and goodbyes

A Song In German Concerning Gardens And Goodbyes

Asong in Spanish addressed to men who drive big cars radio edit

A song in Spanish addressed to men who drive big cars (RADIO EDIT)

Short-haired Domestic is the eponymous first album featuring producer and musician Tim Friese-Greene in collaboration with his partner, musician and songwriter Lee Friese-Greene 

All nine tracks feature a vocal sung in a different language, and have at their heart a breakbeat loop, sampled fragments, scratching, insistent funk and Latin rhythms, surprising appearances of acoustic guitar and just about every sound it's possible to wring from a WASP synthesiser. The result is at once melancholic and driven. 'I was interested in a kind of heavy slowed-down funk, with quite a lot of abstract noise' Tim says, 'and generally embracing dirtiness and imperfection'.

The 'Althea and Donna' template for the vocal delivery sung in Lee’s dry, untutored, South London-ese, gives it a pop edge and sensibility - Tim wanted to avoid any whiff of ‘divaness’ in the vocals, instead allowing the emotion  to be largely generated by the music as a response to the lyric.

Short-Haired Domestic

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