Sex Worker is the current solo side project of Mi Ami rocker Daniel Martin-McCormick. The name is catchy and as it happens the music can be catchy too, but in some dirty anti-catchy sort of way. This pop music doesn’t have bright corners.
For sure this is pop music and it comes courtesy of the Not Not Fun stable that has also brought us Sun Araw, Pocahaunted and other acts that seem to be riding that washed out, west coast and sun faded shitgaze, chillwave, hypnogogic pop or whatever term you may want to splash on it wave of popularity and creativity at the moment. Sex Worker along with their peers give us the flip side of pop, the pop that isn’t so easy to listen to, not so clean and pristine and the sound that you wouldn’t take home to your parents for fear of them suspecting that it’s a new generation of ‘play it backwards and the devil speaks to you’ songs.
Hysterical yelps are Sex Workers vocal style and his compositional palate mainly constitutes simple drum machine loops that punch away and synth sludge/drone that’s sounds as if it could be a waste product making its way through the drainage system of some dilapidated grimy brick building. But there is also pulsation and life to Sex Workers music and it exists in the face of corporate mass made pop. Often Sex Worker will faze in some exquisite high-hat and cymbal track into the mix that will elevate the mood that is pure pop class.
A few youtube video exist as well a some Viemo clips, this is under the radar stuff and even pitchfork have yet to drop the name. It’s hard to say if Sex Worker will break through, it depends on the focus of McCormick, but a lot of what’s on offer on his second release Waving Goodbye is catchy as fuck and a growth from Sex Worker’s debut.
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