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Today we feature duality. Duality in name, sound, and time. Austin’s Joy Baldwin has been releasing music under the name Steel Gemini for the past several years, an electropop project that grabs your ear with punchy, tinny drumbeats shimmery synths, and pulls you in with Baldwin’s powerful, yet unexpected, jazz-meets-country vocals.
On her upcoming debut album Legendery, Baldwin offers a reimagining of seminal 80’s Austin band The Reivers’s 1985 debut album Translate Slowly, transforming their original 80’s jangle-pop sound into a darker, 2020’s electropop dream with plenty of synth lines and drum beats winking back to the album’s original era. The love and tender affection Baldwin has for this album, which she credits as probably the reason she came to Austin in the first place, pours through the album’s brilliant execution, serving you a great groove now, and a classic Austin sound to dig into later.
“Sound and the Fury” is out now; Legendery comes out this summer.
