Introducing Fay

Name: Fay
From: Los Angeles, California
Story: Ex-Pit Er Pat dame runs solo
Sound: Fragmented electronics, vocal cut-ups, rippling rhythms

Fay Davis-Jeffers was formerly the vocalist/keyboardist for Pit Er Pat, an eternally-underrated outfit whose run of impressive records for Thrill Jockey deserve, still, a thoughtful and attentive audience. Now, Davis-Jeffers is rolling solo, turning out a debut Fay LP —Din, due July 2 on Time No Place— that feels just as deserving.

Where Pit Er Pat's records were filled with lovingly-played analog organ chords and Davis-Jeffers' endlessly-pleasing singing, Din finds her working with an electronic palette; with source sounds —her voice, percussion instruments, keyboards— treated as she cuts, crumbles, and shreds things into tiny sound-fragments built for reassembled beat-making.

It's far closer to instrumental hip-hop and leftfield programming than it is to Pit Er Pat's sweaty jazziness, with a cool, quizzical, experimental spirit persisting through Din. The LP has few moments that feel like pop-songs, instead it's a sound suite of constant restlessness; the rippling electronics and hiccuping rhythms never settling into anything approximating a groove. Davis-Jeffers never lets anything settle, and that produces a pleasing alienating quality; listening to Din like a voyage towards an audio unknown, with scant few familiar landmarks along the way.

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