NANCY bares all with the giddying, stripped back garage rock throb of “Pleasure Pen”

Making waves since emerging under a shroud of ambiguity with “Teenage Fantasy” two years ago, Brighton-based up-and-comer NANCY has flaunted his provocative stamina while splicing full-throttle glam rock dazzle with new wave mechanics; a blueprint that draws on the flamboyance of Mott the Hoople, Devo’s sardonic smarts and the electronic pulse of recent genre-tearing indie acts.

Fresh off the back of EP Happy Oddities, and the lead single from forthcoming mini-album 7 Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues, “Pleasure Pen” is yet another example of the electric warrior wiring into established sounds, repurposing and lending fresh lacquer to timeless tropes.

Launching slinking, salacious psych-pop amidst a bordello of waltzing keys and maxed-out fuzz, NANCY’s baritonal Scott Walker-esque drawl liaises with oscillating synth and viscous sonic smog in a fashion recalling early ‘80s ELO and the roots rock of Black Keys, respectively.

Rapturing, distortive and tethered with innuendo-laden quips, the familiar is refurbished with his own writhingly creative stamp as well as nuanced literary guile, which NANCY fleshes out: “Pleasure Pen is based on the Sacher-Masoch novella Venus in Furs, it's dark and dirty and needs to be listened to whilst engulfed in red light. Break out those assless chaps cos it's about to get disgusting.”