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Abbe May – Listen To Album Preview

• 5th Dec 2012

What does the end of the world sound like?

Robotic, vicious, spiralling seduction: “KARMAGEDDON” is Kylie on Ketamine and Beyonce in the microwave. Whatever it is, the end of the world according to Abbe May sounds pretty damned sexy…

Australian electronica/doom pop star, Abbe May, is from a small coastal town in the South West of Western Australia. She records music in a small studio by the Indian ocean with her best friend and producer, Sam Ford (Pond – Beard Wives Denim). Prior to the forthcoming album, “Kiss My Apocalypse”, May released LP “Design Desire” in 2011. The album was awarded a place in the Top five Australian albums of the year in The Australian Music Prize, the country’s equivalent to the Mercury prize .

After ‘Design Desire’, Abbe May took a sharp new turn away from her heavy guitar riffage and into the hook laden world of weirdo pop. “Karmageddon” is a surprising song for a West Australian country girl to conjure up… Perhaps that is why it is so disturbingly cool.

Then after touring the record on the summer festival circuits, May and Ford embarked upon a year of experimental recording with a mellotron and a drum machine. First single, “Karmageddon” – a vicious slice of doom pop and one hell of a ‘fuck you’, has become a cult hit across Australia . Karmageddon’s direct lyrics leave little to the imagination as to what inspired the song.

Forthcoming album, “Kiss My Apocalypse”, is devoted entirely to the concept of the death of love. ‘Karmageddon’ is a pre-cursor preview to next year’s debut UK single ‘T.R.O.U.B.L.E’ out March 2013

ABBE MAY – KARMAGEDDON by The Playground PR