Be My Wife

Be My Wife is the Bowie-inspired alias of Paris-rooted, Miami, and Buenos Aires-reared Federico Nessi: a name dipped in noir gloss and lit by cigarette ash. His songs, equal parts dirge and daydream, coil through corridors of post-punk disquiet, minimal wave restraint, and crooner cool. Think fog machines coughing, strobes stammering, bodies swaying while hearts splinter. The Restless Pursuit / To Deliver A Feeling spin eight songs, each a small, sharp prayer to dance floors and dim-lit reveries. There’s something unmistakably Latin in the sway: part Miami heat, part Buenos Aires ache; all stitched, stitched again, stitched once more in a Paris flat, a meticulous labour soaked in sweat and sentimental scrawl. It’s gothic pop tempered with tenderness, Krautrock rhythms haunted by hip tremours, a soundtrack for nights when the lights blur, and the only thing left is to lose yourself: eyes shut, heart open, between the beat and the breakdown. Text by Alice Teeple for Post-Punk.com ‘…gritty, krautrock instrumentation with flashes of post-punk and experimental pop.’ CLASH ‘…almost transcendent.’ Mystic Sons ´…a restless world where beauty and brutality never sit still.’ FAME Magazine ´…experimental pop and shadowy romanticism..’ tagg