“Honey” is a dizzying dopamine-hit as impressed by the easy disco of Kylie Minogue as that first rush of queer love. With lyrics that gifted “How Our Love Grows” its title, “Honey” additionally continues to construct the visible world Strabe have constructed round their upcoming document; this time, relocating their AI-generated selves from the Margate seaside of “All My Coronary heart” straight to the dancefloor, directed by Tom Furse.

Strabe are alt-pop duo Angelica and Emmet, whose debut album proves a vivid, bittersweet exploration of grief, progress, gender, and private evolution. Strabe initially met within the smoking part of Cork Music Competition, bonding over their eerily related music tastes earlier than rapidly realising that they every represented the lacking piece of the opposite’s inventive desires. Angelica, who’s initially from Edinburgh, had pages upon pages of lyrics with no actual dwelling, whereas Dubliner Emmet had an digital solo challenge with no voice tethering all of it collectively.

A furiously prolific group, Strabe moved to London between lockdowns and set about making music IRL once more eventually. Earlier than their first physique of labor had a reputation, it had a color – a deep vivid blue, beaming out of the cyanotype prints that Angelica started making all through the writing course of, and percolating like dashing water by the genre-fluid manufacturing work of Emmet. With a sound that summons the wistful alternative-pop of different bands, “How Our Love Grows” navigates these uneven waters of younger maturity, from the swelling highs to what occurs when the wave breaks.

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