' Oh the Tele-tele vision, sugar on the cake, and the petrol in the car, lots of make up…..” What are you on about Clare Bowditch? “Something happened,” says Bowditch, “And I needed to work it out. I’m a person who lives and speaks from the heart and I started to wonder if there was a place in this world for me, someone who operates on the commercial fringe. We’re all under such pressure to live up to a perfect one-size-fits-all ideal.” This feeling of discontent sent Bowditch off on a Random Creative Adventure with No Fixed Outcome. The happy ending was Modern Day Addiction, an invigorating and luminous album that traverses a landscape of consumerism, expectation, death, addiction, pressure, image, disappointment, love, luck and hope with rich sounds, lush melodies and sparkling vocals. Modern Day Addiction was written by Clare primarily on her collection of family-inherited Casiotone keyboards which created the boppy energy. “I wrote it mainly on Casio, using its rudimentary beats, which (partner) drummer Marty then re-interpreted on his kit. I used the beats firstly because they made me happy, but also through necessity: somebody had to be with the kids.” Example 3,298 of necessity being the mother of invention! From there the duo decided they should forget folk, and concentrate on what they do best, drums and vocals. Lots of drums - Lots of vocals. The result is something that can’t be placed in any time or genre. It has so many influences, facets and layer