Dubstar - Two

Dubstar - TwoVinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Two is the second album from Dubstar since Sarah Blackwood and Chris Wilkie reunited in the mid 2010s, and the first since their seminal 90s albums Disgraceful and Goodbye to be produced by New Order and Pet Shop Boys collaborator Stephen Hague. This reunion with Hague ushers in a record of full spectrum megapop, swooning synthesized orchestras, acutely observed kitchen sink dramas, and outright bangers. A mere 26

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Two is the second album from Dubstar since Sarah Blackwood and Chris Wilkie reunited in the mid-2010s, and the first since their seminal 90s albums Disgraceful and Goodbye to be produced by New Order and Pet Shop Boys collaborator Stephen Hague. This reunion with Hague ushers in a record of full-spectrum megapop, swooning synthesized orchestras, acutely observed kitchen sink dramas, and outright bangers. A mere 26 years since Stars and Not So Manic Now announced them as something disturbing and different in the pop firmament, Dubstar are themselves again - only more so. Two is a record of bewitching, cinematic scale that connects Dubstar's original thematic universe - the madness under the surface of the suburban, the way that women are forced to fit themselves to the shape of the world and not vice versa - to a new, older and wiser, post-COVID reality.