Cash and David are an enigmatic electronic duo who describe themselves as ‘trans-genre rebellious’.
By Patrick Cash
Their previous single ‘Funn’ showed the two dressed up as Johnny Cash and David Bowie, explaining the name. Aligned together through a mutual love of Bacon, Dylan Thomas and B-movies, their sound in their own words is ‘a flourish of indie guitar, house beat, world rhythm, tribal rock and trashy pop tracks’.
Their new single ‘Pulse’ is infectious from its beginning, with a synth-guitar beat that gets into your brain – in a good way, like a really sexy boy you can’t stop thinking about. It sounds very different from what else is out there on the musical sphere right now, whether it be the golden (chains) pop of Rita Ora or the 70s retro masterclass of the most famous electronic duo in the world, Daft Punk. To use words that get used a lot, but are eminently pertinent to this write-up: it’s edgy, modern and urban.
Lyrically, the demure female vocal murmurs lines laced with intrigue and interest. ‘I forgot who I was’, she murmurs at the start, before racing at the mood and pace jump, ‘I’m going to start to run, to the sound of the drum and it’s just like a heartbeat, it’s been way too long’. Describing a night out that’s reached its hedonistic zenith of depersonalisation and ecstasy ‘by 4 in the morning’, the words will have an affinity with any gay man who has dipped in a toe in the waters of Vauxhall’s clubs.
And in the video, we watch a young man dancing through the urban, night-lit landscape of the city. By car parks, outside rundown shops, under television screens and through smoky clubs, we follow his travels, before he’s joined by a series of equally as talented, manic characters all dancing to the same beat. ‘Pulse’ is a great, mesmerising delve into the modern age of nightlife, clubs and music.
