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: Dessert
Based: LA
Listen: soundcloud.com/hello-dessert
Similar to: The Acid

Yep, that’s what we’re working with. Nothing but foggy images, bold colours with zero attachments. Information on their location, the minds behind Dessert? Don’t count on it. Their label is ‘NONE’, their members are ‘THREE’. They’re an unsigned trio, then, of beat-based expressionists plugging pop into new grounds.

With two songs to their name, Dessert have already expressed a newfound edge that’s hard to latch onto for any genre-skewing newcomer. On ‘Lovelink’, they brush close to Lorde in citing royalty in their lyrics - ‘She was born to a King / he was born to a wiseman’ - before stampeding over any visible boundaries with an assault of police sirens, skittering beats and washed-up love statements like ‘don’t call me up I don’t want to hear it’, all wrapped up in a shiny but completely uncourteous R&B aesthetic.

‘You’re Welcome’ relies on similar samples, but as a debut it’s a serious shock to the system: Harsh, juggernaut-like bass meddles up with the rotating sound of a ’50s-era record player, spilling out soul and doo-wop fragments only to see everything from a previous era getting ruthlessly stamped on. On initial impressions, Dessert seem to spell their mission statement in bold uppercase. They fuse the past and the future like the two are best friends going off on a dream holiday that turns sinister. There’s fear and an anxiety in every daring move they flex to date. It’s this risk element that has to remain a staple of what they do in the future.