Happy Ending

Happy Ending is the first full length LP from HiFi Sean and David McAlmont. The album was recorded at the top of an East London tower block, mixed in a beach hut on Camber Sands and gilded by Bollywood strings is already setting its sights hide and wide, but when the sound and vision encompasses panoramic electronic soul laced with a viscerally personal reaction to the mad times we’re living through, we’re in the presence of something special.

The lead single that trails the album, ‘All in the World,’ is a window onto the duo’s kaleidoscopic rhythm and rhyme, mixing joy and rage with chance and chaos. Over a percolating house/disco hybrid – “It’s a bit ravey,” Sean reckons – David’s suitably charged lyric suggests he’s surrendering rather than fighting this, “Catalogue of fools,” as he puts it. “This is my return to the louche years / Back to the numberless days and the hangovers”, HiFi Sean and David McAlmont – Happy Ending.

Our two British protagonists are Sean Dickson, a former indie star who reinvented himself as an electronic adventurist – musician, DJ, producer – whose last album featured a stellar line-up of guest vocalists, including Yoko Ono, Fred Schneider (B- 52’s), Alan Vega, Crystal Waters (fronting ‘Testify’, which topped the US Billboard dance chart) and David McAlmont – the last, a thrilling singing sensation with an illustrious history, from indie-soul pioneers Thieves and the legendary McAlmont and Butler to purer soul and jazz recordings and a striking collaboration with minimalist composer Michael Nyman.