Shakespears Sister

Review: In honour of Record Store Day, Siobhan Fahey has decided to offer-up a special "10th Anniversary Edition" of her 2009 comeback set as Shakespears Sister, "Songs From The Red Room". Most of the set had been recorded four years earlier and mined the rich seam of electroclash/indie-dance fusion that was all the rage at the time. Listening back a decade on, the set still bristles with fuzz-tone guitars, bombastic beats, distinctive electronic motifs and stylized vocals. This expanded edition throws in a couple of bonus tracks plus a quartet of remixes. Of these, the Droyds throbbing Italo-disco style take on "Bitter Pill" and the sludgy, post-apocalyptic revision of "Cold" are the ones to check.