West coast new new wavers take us dancing at the Russian disco.
They look stylish, sound explosive and have an incredibly striking blonde Russian front-woman called Tatyana Bugayev intoning thick eastern European vowels all over their guitar, synth and drum machine productions. Imagine early Goldfrapp, Ladytron or Neon Neon with a distinctive, eastern twist.
Salon Boris released debut album I Am The Drug (UDiscs) at the end of 2006, had a Friday-night club residency at Electroball (Karbon) in Glasgow throughout 2007, were picked as one of the bands to watch in 2007 by the All Saints fashion brand, remixed Transvision Vamp’s I Want Your Love, released the Picture Of You single in January and completed their second album in March. Have previously appeared live in the SLAM tent at T In The Park, headlined gigs around the country, appeared on the BBC TV ‘Music Show’, recorded a Radio Scotland session for Vic Galloway, received Radio One airplay and 4 weeks of radio play listing on XFM and Beat 106 among others.
Think Goldfrapp reconfigured as the house band for an Estonian strip-club.” (News Of The World)
Quirky, very catchy electro pop with a very welcome dark edge. Tatyana Bugayeva’s eastern-accented, sub-zero vocal delivery just adds to the atmosphere.” Top 20 Album Of The Year (M8 Magazine)
Updating the Human League for a new generation” (4Kiks Magazine)
