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Dance Of Delusion

from Hard To Please by Sally Dige

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    Consolidating 2 years of solo work, “Hard To Please” is the debut album by Canadian polymath Sally Dige. First coming to prominence in the synth-wave scene with an elusive, meta-persona in a blur of homemade costumes, Dige’s world has grown to encompass visual art, theatre and design elements. Most surprising on her long-awaited debut however is the occasional removal of the various masks and characters Dige has played to date, revealing something more tangible and fragile underneath.

    “Hard To Please” still revels in a darkly thrilling, Italo-disco pop music, awash with dry ice and hidden in shadow, most personified on the instant classic Immaculate Deception. However, on the long, nocturnal walk home Dige begins to sing of loneliness, being lost, the transience of our relationships. Attention to detail is paramount. On the title-track the crisp early-80s, swooning bass line duets with Dige’s desperate plea to a lover fading into the distance, a presence lamented with even more pathos on the towering, early-4AD-esque, slow-burner Your Girl. It’s a new fragility that effortlessly manages to convey a luxurious, inescapable sensuality at the same time.

    Indeed, Hard To Please portrays a clear narrative, with electronic body movers like Doppelganger portraying an out-of control, self-obsessed persona at the beginning of the record, like Liasons Dangereuses fronted by early Madonna. Breaking down into the foggy murk, the more hopelessly romantic album closers “A Certain Beauty” and “Dance Of Delusion” burn a ghostly image into the listener’s mind, as Dige, or someone like her, over Cure-like swooning reverberations entreaties the powers that be to let her dance. Dige never fully reveals her hand, but the game is worth playing endlessly.

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lyrics

But were those words ever real, at all?
That once had soothed our desperate souls

And it seems everything’s gone by
With our silly hopes and -
all dreams, just a veil of lies
But what did we know when

Lost in our dance of delusion
Smitten with the words of
Things that could never be

Promises and wine for the chosen heir
Calming the nerves with your warm gentle hand
Everything was so perfect, all the people dressed so fine
You told me to wait on this very porch for
Better things to be coming in time
I waited in this spot
Never missed a sleep, dreaming of those days
That only you could bring
But the soil dried up, and the years grew bleak

And it seems everything’s gone by
With our silly hopes and -
all dreams, just a veil of lies

It was just a dance of delusion
A dance of delusion
Take my hand and lead me through this sacred dance

Those days disappeared but I’ll never let go
Take me back for another dance
To the edge of the stream, that midnight dream
How I loved all those careless nights
And everyone seemed to care, they marveled and stared
Let me dance, let me dance, let me dance
Everyone seemed to care, they marveled and stared
Let me dance, let me dance, let me dance
And how could I be? How could I be?
So wrong, so wrong, so wrong

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from Hard To Please, released May 11, 2015

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Sally Dige Berlin, Germany

Sally Dige ("Dee-Ah") is a multidisciplinary-audiovisual artist based in Berlin. Sally records and produces her own music and manages and creates every aspect of her creative work herself. Her aim is to keep her sound always evolving by experimenting new ways of composing, producing and playing music. ... more

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