Dallas Kent is a collaboration between London-based composer/producer Ian Williams (originally from Canterbury, Kent) and singer Crystal Brown (from Dallas, Texas). It started in the late 2010s when Ian was looking for a singer to work with on some of his dark electronic pop songs, with Brown happening to live one street away from his studio in Hackney, East London.

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They swiftly recorded a considerable amount of material, but had to shelve the project when Crystal relocated to the USA. The duo continued to discuss their options until finally, with Crystal settled in San Francisco and the pandemic giving everyone time to pause their normal lives, they decided to complete what they had begun so many years before.

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The first instalment is a single called Ghost Highway, with its tints of Massive Attack and Morricone, released in August 2024, and supported with a suitably Lynchian video, which was filmed by Crystal on her phone, and edited as psychedelically as possible by Ian.

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In the meantime, the duo will be continuing to work on finishing the rest of the album, a mashup of cinematic downtempo, americana, french disco and anything else they can throw into the mix. Watch this space...

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