Following their Billboard 200-charting debut album
Act One by two years, 2018's
Unusual was written by singer Samantha Gongol and producer Jeremy Lloyd while on tour during the success of their Top 40 single "Down." Without significantly changing the duo's distinctively spare, fractured, mechanical sound, it's an especially sinewy set that highlights seductive vocal lines. The album's singles included "Differently" and "Subtle Thing," whose distorted timbres include what sound like manipulated vocals, finger snaps, wind, and flexatone, but only they know how much of it is organic in origin. ~ Marcy Donelson