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Creep Show

A collaboration between sardonic singer/songwriter John Grant and electro supergroup Wrangler, Creep Show's witty, mischievous music subverts funk, techno, and pop. The project's debut, 2018's Mr. Dynamite, offered drolly deadpan electronic experiments that bubbled over with creative chemistry; on 2023's Yawning Abyss, Creep Show honed their songwriting to take sharp, satirical aim at society's corruption and complacency. Grant met the men of Wrangler -- former Cabaret Voltaire frontman Stephen Mallinder, Tuung's Phillip Winter, and Ben "Benge" Edwards -- at the 2014 Sensoria Festival in Sheffield, England, where the group was performing with Carter Tutti. They hit it off and stayed in touch, first working together in 2016 on a remix of "Voodoo Doll," a single from Grant's 2015 album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. That October, they collaborated on a set of new material for a concert at London's Barbican Theatre celebrating the indie record store chain Rough Trade's 40th anniversary. The group -- whose name comes from an art exhibit that Edwards saw in a dream -- recorded its debut album at Edwards' home studio in Cornwall, taking full advantage of his wide array of analog synths and the members' shared fondness for film soundtracks and post-punk. The results were Mr. Dynamite, which Bella Union released in March 2018. The following year, Creep Show issued the single "Uneffable" just before touring the U.K. For their next album, the project took a more direct approach that stripped some of the effects from Grant and Mallinder's vocals and focused their songwriting. Created at Edwards' studio and in Iceland, June 2023's Yawning Abyss explored moral bankruptcy and indifference with songs that ranged from brooding ballads to industrial funk workouts.
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