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Hard To Please

by Sally Dige

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    Consolidating 2 years of solo work, “Hard To Please” is the debut album by Canadian polymath Sally Dige. First coming to prominence in the synth-wave scene with an elusive, meta-persona in a blur of homemade costumes, Dige’s world has grown to encompass visual art, theatre and design elements. Most surprising on her long-awaited debut however is the occasional removal of the various masks and characters Dige has played to date, revealing something more tangible and fragile underneath.

    “Hard To Please” still revels in a darkly thrilling, Italo-disco pop music, awash with dry ice and hidden in shadow, most personified on the instant classic Immaculate Deception. However, on the long, nocturnal walk home Dige begins to sing of loneliness, being lost, the transience of our relationships. Attention to detail is paramount. On the title-track the crisp early-80s, swooning bass line duets with Dige’s desperate plea to a lover fading into the distance, a presence lamented with even more pathos on the towering, early-4AD-esque, slow-burner Your Girl. It’s a new fragility that effortlessly manages to convey a luxurious, inescapable sensuality at the same time.

    Indeed, Hard To Please portrays a clear narrative, with electronic body movers like Doppelganger portraying an out-of control, self-obsessed persona at the beginning of the record, like Liasons Dangereuses fronted by early Madonna. Breaking down into the foggy murk, the more hopelessly romantic album closers “A Certain Beauty” and “Dance Of Delusion” burn a ghostly image into the listener’s mind, as Dige, or someone like her, over Cure-like swooning reverberations entreaties the powers that be to let her dance. Dige never fully reveals her hand, but the game is worth playing endlessly.

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1.
A tainted thought Had made you restless And pulled everything on its side You told the world That I was taking away from you Your freedom, how untrue And how it hurts I gave you everything that I had Take my heart, and throw it away Don’t you, blame it all on me Don’t you, know that I tried I gave, you everything I had Don’t you, just walk away like before I travelled far, just to train back Your little cries just part of your game Your new lovers you tried to flaunt Only stole from you Now you’re lost, confused, and scared And when you cried I could see the little child I had always known Don’t you, blame it all on me Don’t you, know that I tried I gave, you everything I had Don’t you, just walk away like before Don’t walk away from me Oh little child (I saw the child in you, I saw the light in you) Of mine walk away Little child, little child Of mine Don’t walk away...
2.
I caught her in the hallway She slipped out the back door And she never said much ‘cept that, ‘people are such a bore’ I’ve seen her once or twice before Her face so hard to catch She changes her self-look And her stories don’t match The lies, the shame Don’t be mistaken The lies, the shame It’s gone far The lies, the shame Oh don’t be mistaken She’s never gonna break never break your heart Immaculate Deception Immaculate Deception She walks around, in her garbage And her cheap plastic Wearing this serious face That’s cold, distant life, I’ve seen And I swear sometimes She’s not even real She’s just a little girl in her deluded play The lies, the shame Don’t be mistaken The lies, the shame It’s gone far The lies, the shame Oh don’t be mistaken She’s never gonna break never break your heart Immaculate Deception Immaculate Deception...
3.
So Far Away 05:10
Aching, burning for you I cannot think Heavy, in sadness I feel, so very lost It doesn’t help it that I - miss, miss, miss, miss miss, miss, miss, I miss you All the time miss, miss, miss, miss miss, miss, miss, I miss you And only you - I’m sorry I’m so lost in this place I don’t want to stay Nothing’s the same when you’re missing I’m so lost in this place I don’t want to stay You’re so close to me But you’re so far away Your beauty, it pains me When its cracked with grieving lines I should have said how much you mean to me But I couldn’t speak It doesn’t matter now its - pale, pale, pale This passions frail between us (I tried to hold) pale, pale, pale Distance did kill the raw love (Your slipping hand…) I’m so lost in this place I don’t want to stay Nothing’s the same when you’re missing I’m so lost in this place I don’t want to stay You’re so close to me But you’re so far away You’re so far away...
4.
Stop stepping on my toes You doppelgänger Stop wearing all my clothes Oh you doppelgänger Waiting for me to follow you home Your life lost in a song You got all the things that you want You doppelgänger You doppelgänger Your stare is so cold and so vain You took all that I embraced You don’t act so surprised You doppelgänger Ohhh, you doppelgänger She’s fashioned herself in all these lies Takes so long for her to realize She’s facing her own reflection You doppelgänger You doppelgänger I see you dance in a lonely hall Just like a stray, no one will take you home I wonder just how you'd get by without me Oh no, without me Stop staring back in the mirror at me You doppelgänger You doppelgä-ä-änger Stop leering out from the line Stop turning your head from mine You’ve got something that I didn’t find You doppelgänger ohh, you doppelgänger She’s my doppel-doppel-gänger...
5.
You didn’t say, where you had gone to When you ran over the hill You came back Your eyes darker Your tongue caught, your spirit ill Where did your spirit go? Don’t let us drift away I miss all that we had What seemed eternal Died so fast Now you’re trying to change the story You know this love was meant to last Will you ever be the same? Where did your spirit go? Will you ever be the same? Don’t let us drift away Will you ever be the same? I want you back again Will you ever be the same? Don’t tell me its too late I turned around And caught your face that You tried hard, to hide away But I saw The tear that flickered That silver scar changed everything Silence pulled us apart The tension fed your unsettled heart Now there’s a dent in the way you speak Tell me now what you want to say Will you ever be the same? Where did your spirit go? Will you ever be the same? Don’t let us drift away Will you ever be the same? I want you back again Will you ever be the same? Don’t tell me its too late All you keep are tears to scar...
6.
Your Girl 03:54
If I should stay another day Would you tell me everything? That plagues your mind Behind closed eyes That’s causing all of this strain But how can I be your girl? How can I be? How can I be your girl? How can I be? And all those things you couldn’t say I read them everyday Upon your skin, the lines sink in And that’s where your secrets lay But how can I be your girl? How? When your in your world How can I be your girl? How? When you’re in your world How?...
7.
Don’t look anywhere, anymore Because you needn’t bother Those saying you should be searching more Will have you lost forever Don’t sigh, don’t speak Just let your body tell me everything Don’t sigh, don’t speak Just let your body say it all I first saw you With your head down You never spoke a word But when you moved like a prophet dancer Your hands did sing me a passage unheard There was something different about you There was something I couldn’t say There was always a certain beauty to you That perhaps only I could see Don’t sigh, don’t speak Just let this moment be Don’t sigh, don’t speak Just let this moment be There was always There was always There was always a certain beauty to you...
8.
But were those words ever real, at all? That once had soothed our desperate souls And it seems everything’s gone by With our silly hopes and - all dreams, just a veil of lies But what did we know when Lost in our dance of delusion Smitten with the words of Things that could never be Promises and wine for the chosen heir Calming the nerves with your warm gentle hand Everything was so perfect, all the people dressed so fine You told me to wait on this very porch for Better things to be coming in time I waited in this spot Never missed a sleep, dreaming of those days That only you could bring But the soil dried up, and the years grew bleak And it seems everything’s gone by With our silly hopes and - all dreams, just a veil of lies It was just a dance of delusion A dance of delusion Take my hand and lead me through this sacred dance Those days disappeared but I’ll never let go Take me back for another dance To the edge of the stream, that midnight dream How I loved all those careless nights And everyone seemed to care, they marveled and stared Let me dance, let me dance, let me dance Everyone seemed to care, they marveled and stared Let me dance, let me dance, let me dance And how could I be? How could I be? So wrong, so wrong, so wrong

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Consolidating 2 years of solo work, “Hard To Please” is the debut album by Canadian polymath Sally Dige. First coming to prominence in the synth-wave scene with an elusive, meta-persona in a blur of homemade costumes, Dige’s world has grown to encompass visual art, theatre and design elements. Most surprising on her long-awaited debut however is the occasional removal of the various masks and characters Dige has played to date, revealing something more tangible and fragile underneath.

“Hard To Please” still revels in a darkly thrilling, Italo-disco pop music, awash with dry ice and hidden in shadow, most personified on the instant classic Immaculate Deception. However, on the long, nocturnal walk home Dige begins to sing of loneliness, being lost, the transience of our relationships. Attention to detail is paramount. On the title-track the crisp early-80s, swooning bass line duets with Dige’s desperate plea to a lover fading into the distance, a presence lamented with even more pathos on the towering, early-4AD-esque, slow-burner Your Girl. It’s a new fragility that effortlessly manages to convey a luxurious, inescapable sensuality at the same time.

Indeed, Hard To Please portrays a clear narrative, with electronic body movers like Doppelganger portraying an out-of control, self-obsessed persona at the beginning of the record, like Liasons Dangereuses fronted by early Madonna. Breaking down into the foggy murk, the more hopelessly romantic album closers “A Certain Beauty” and “Dance Of Delusion” burn a ghostly image into the listener’s mind, as Dige, or someone like her, over Cure-like swooning reverberations entreaties the powers that be to let her dance. Dige never fully reveals her hand, but the game is worth playing endlessly.

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released May 11, 2015

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Sally Dige Berlin, Germany

Sally Dige ("Dee-Ah") is a multidisciplinary-audiovisual artist based in Berlin. Sally records and produces her own music and manages and creates every aspect of her creative work herself. Her aim is to keep her sound always evolving by experimenting new ways of composing, producing and playing music. ... more

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