Teengirl Fantasy – '7AM' review
Don’t be fooled by the name, or the air of postmodern prankster that surrounds them – Teengirl Fantasy are not the art-school button-bashers they might like to suggest. Indeed, 7AM sounds less like a teen girl fantasy and more like a big-budget night of hedonism in a luxurious Balearic club, all velvety throb and sparkling hi-hats: sure, there’s faux glamour and paper-thin soul, but the event is executed so as to render the con either irrelevant or undetectable.
Mainly recalling the late-night dub-house side of early 90s rave – as the tracks slip by, the impression is that the record’s title refers to the end of the night rather than the start of the morning – 7AM is gorgeously consistent, evocative and woozy, and surprisingly European- and vintage-sounding for a pair of US college students. A lovely debut.
8/10
