Scott Hardware's single "Joy" feels like a pop indie / 1980's pop disco fusion from his upcoming "Engel" album

Joy

Singer-songwriter, artist, performer Scott Hardware is set to release his second LP "Engel" inspired by Wim Wenders 1987 film Wings of Desire. It is a romantic fantasy about invisible immortal angels who walk around a pre-unification Berlin listening to the thoughts of their human inhabitants. One angel falls in love with a lonely trapeze artist and chooses to become mortal.  

Hardware says, 
“I sought with this album to capture the film’s velvety feeling – in turns funny, depressing, dark and mundane – in LP form” 

The album's single Joy is an unbridled celebration of life and love bouncing on drum beats and jazz pop piano as orchestrated dance vibes swirl around the whole spinning thing. Hardware's vocal aesthetic is appropriately wide eyed, whimsical and free forming. In the end it feels like pop indie fused with 1980's pop disco.

Scott Hardware is based out of Toronto, Canada and "Engel" is scheduled for release in April (2020).

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Robb Donker


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Toronto’s Scott Hardware will be releasing Engel, his second full-length album this April. It will mark the end of a three-year process of writing, recording and letting down his guard.

The album was inspired by Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire. The film follows angels around pre-unification Berlin as they listen to the thoughts of the mortals they are surrounded by. “I sought with this album to capture the film’s velvety feeling – in turns funny, depressing, dark and mundane – in LP form” Hardware says.

Scott just released the lead single, "Joy", a rhythmic and driving avant pop track which is not about experiencing joy, but a reminder to keep looking for it. It's the most overt nod to dance music on Engel and a love letter to music that makes you move.