Short-Haired Domestic

A Song in Bulgarian For Lovers of Gin

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.