When a project is born from a mutual love of PJ Harvey, you know I’m all in. Pink Must began with this love shared from half a country away, but once Mari Maurice Rubio and Lynn Avery, better known as More Eaze and Iceblink respectively, were both located in Brooklyn, it was game on.
As Avery’s moniker insinuates, the duo have crafted an album with several 90’s genre-bending elements. It’s a lot like PJ Harvey wrote songs with one of the decade’s premier trip-hop groups like Massive Attack or Portishead. But then they sometimes throw-in things like strings against a vocoder, again, subverting every expectation, even as you think you’re catching on.
Post-punk and trip-hop blend beautifully on the album’s first track “Morphe Sun.” Instead of a melodic earworm, you get a solid beat keeping center on a laid-back song that waxes and wanes between different tempos and pockets of sounds for your ear to swing between.
“Morphe Sun,” from Pink Must, out now.