“A couple of years ago, blond-haired New Zealander Connan Mockasin had a nightmare. He and Sam Eastgate were cooped up in a dirty bedroom in Loughborough. Mockasin was lying in pain on a mattress, prostrate and feverish. Eastgate, brown-haired and from nearby Nottingham, was crawling around on the floor, chanting. In the dream, Mockasin had fallen ill after pricking himself on an HIV-infected need”
“Following an implausibly inauspicious introduction – involving misplaced blame for the theft of a fibreglass pig – Connan Mockasin and LA Priest’s Sam Dust began writing together in 2008, whilst Mockasin was supporting Dust’s then-band Late of the Pier. A cursory glance at the artwork for their first collaborative LP – depicting the duo as extraterrestrial sirens in a pastel-coloured Eden – confi”
“Connan Mockasin and LA Priest's Sam Dust combine in the "unconventionally attractive" Soft Hair”
“This collaboration between Connan Mockasin and Sam Dust, formerly of dance-punk Brits Late of the Pier, strikes a discomfiting balance between queasy and cute.”
