DUOLOGUE

Words by Toby Rogers

According to the Little Oxford Dictionary on my bookshelf, a relic from my schooldays, a duologue is the dialogue of two speakers; a fine moniker for this London-based quintet who are among only a handful of outfits blending industrial techno influences with sweeping orchestral indie.

Making their own samples with handheld recorders, Duologue love using organic sounds in electronic music. Marrying dubstep beats, indie-rock guitars and classical strings, the band are crossing boundaries that have rarely been bridged before.

Duologue - Push it by Duologue

Nowhere is this experimentation more evident than on the band's recent track 'Push It.' Opening like a late night glitch-house tale, it sees Duologue weave haunting vocals and full-bodied guitars over distant drums before morphing into cinematic string-fuelled indie.

With a host of remixes under their belts for the likes of Florence & The Machine, Little Dragon, Givers, The Drums and others, 2012 will see the band get to work on their full-length studio debut. Working with a producer for the first time, the band are eager to capture the essence of their genre-jumping live shows.

Fusing sweet pop melodies with bold electronic exploration, Duologue are a highly talented bunch. Arguably too experimental for the mainstream, they're nevertheless a band that avant-garde music aficionados will come to love.

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