Fenech-Soler are a 4 piece from Kings Cliffe and began in 2008 out of a love of dance and club music. They aimed to write songs that we be club and festival anthems with experimental edges and from there quickly picked up fans including Alan Braxe, Groove Armada and Annie Mac. They released their first single “Cult of Romance” on Braxe’s French dance label, which then led on to lead singer Ben co-writing and featuring on the Groove Armada single “Paper Romance”. Two more independent singles later on Moda Records they picked up fans across the board at Radio 1 and Xfm, and finally found their home at B-Unique Records. Fenech-Soler’s self produced debut album takes the band’s radio-friendly nous to unexpected places. Battlefields begins the album with a blast, launching with a heavenly chorus of voices, before shooting into stratospheres of glistening synths and dirty brass. Lies rises slowly from the deep, a tale of lust and paranoia that becomes a glittery explosion of foot-stomping melancholy. Golden Sun plays with rhythms that summon up the sultriness of desert heat; The Great Unknown takes a distant echo of French house in new, dizzying directions. And Stop And Stare is their club and festival anthem ready and waiting, full of twitchy, urgent riffs, and hands-to-the-air vitality. It is the sound of a band at the starting gate, ready to fire their gun.
