Decisive Pink Ticket to Fame LP (Pink Vinyl)

Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV are Decisive Pink - Ticket To Fame is their highly anticipated debut. After teasing the single 'Haffmilch Holiday' the duo amassed a rapturous response, with The Guardian calling it "a space-age-dancefloor swoon that brings to mind Kate Bush's Waking the Witch" and the New York Times highlighting the single as "substantive and thoroughly hypnotic". On their first LP they do not disappoint, calling on Kate NV's experimental pop leanings and Angel Deradoorian's taste for atmosphere and otherworldliness, Decisive Pink have created a playful and abstract album designed for escape and enchantment.

Electronic pop at it's finest, the debut points to the fact that life is a puzzle, but you can still get a lot from living it. 'Destiny' is a smart take on the nature of belief, built on a question-and-answer format, where Angel plays a role as the seer, and Kate the enquirer. The poppy beat is reminiscent of Talking Heads' 'The Great Curve', from Remain in Light. There again, it could be a sinister take on Will Powers' 'Kissing with Confidence'. The synth squeaks, squelches and toots sound like the timid affirmation of the initiate.

Ticket to Fame is also unashamedly romantic in atmosphere and tone. Romance is to be found in the simple pleasures, such as listening to a blackbird on the instrumental 'Rodeo', where warm synths, a melancholic guitar pattern and hissing rhythm combine with some vocal snippets to form a soothing contemplation. Then there is 'Ode to Boy'; a perfect pop track. The walking into the room of "more than just an ordinary boy" (doubtless "drunk with fire") allows a set of initially different, and shortened synth patterns to build to a glorious affirmation of the power of love.

Everything about Decisive Pink, the electro-pop crossover event featuring Deradoorian and Kate NV, suggests that the two artists are having the time of their lives working together. The pair dress in matching space glam outfits, complete with New Romantic makeup and hairdos. And the music they make together is playful as hell, twisting knobs, plugging in patch cords and slapping down at the keys of a synth in delirious synchronized movements. What themes emerge from the digital dust and glitter spray is our tenuous relationship with technology — its own kind of modern dance as we try to find the silver lining in awkward automated phone chats, rush hour traffic and fractured lines of communication. It's the human touches that are hidden within the lyrics and on display in their colorful musical interplay that keep the album from getting completely despairing. These two fabulous artists see the issues at hand and comment on them without daring to offer up any dull solutions other than looking deep within or letting it all out on the dancefloor.