HAPPY MEALS - Altered Images (from Apéro LSSN028) by Night School Records published on 2014-08-20T16:52:05Z PREORDER: http://nightschoolrecords.bigcartel.com/product/lssn028-happy-meals-apero-lp Happy Meals is the Glasgow-based duo of Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, life-partners since high school finding expression in cosmic form. Originally from the Scottish borders, Rodden and Cook (also of The Cosmic Dead) began Happy Meals in a flurry of experimentation at Glasgow’s creative hub The Green Door Studio. Initially the result of a free music production course, Apéro sees the pair embark on a blissful voyage into a love-fuelled, outward-looking hedonism. Both artists operate machines and sing but it’s the dominating Franco-Scottish lingua-franca of Suzanne Rodden that imbues a sense of seductive fun to the album. Their first recorded statement, Apéro is an instant rush of Kosmiche-disco, utterly addictive and inviting. The epic Crystal Salutation welcomes the listener in with analogue synths delayed into the horizon before Electronic Disco ushers in distorted drum machines and Rodden’s disco-at- sunset vocal. Album stand-out Altered Images is a pop-masterpiece, mixing French / Italo disco, acid basslines and a sense of Scottish optimism. Age Of Love is unabashedly the feeling of being up until day-break, with layered synths climaxing all-around. Retro-futuristic visions abound on the beat-less Visions Of Utopia before closer Le Voyage reprises back the cosmopolitan disco, playing out the perfect club night in ecstatic fashion. It’s an enchanting, inclusive vision; everyone is invited, the future is bright. Genre Glasgow Comment by Fergus McQueenie x 2020-07-27T13:17:28Z Comment by Louis Lam amazing! 2017-11-21T08:09:20Z Comment by Majhala Garsillher bellisima 2017-09-17T05:23:13Z Comment by Radio Fitzrovia Love it!!!!!! 2015-04-16T16:33:29Z Comment by WHITE <3 2015-01-12T12:47:32Z Comment by EDDO lovely vocals 2014-11-10T04:34:15Z Comment by U426 Nice 80's feel on this ! :) 2014-10-23T06:55:11Z Comment by Edwin L. (Gray) omg this is funky nice 2014-10-23T05:47:19Z Comment by mjgray92 Perfect song. Pop music beamed in from paradise... 2014-10-20T01:53:35Z