Sarah Nixey made her show business entrance as one third of the darkly glamorous pop group Black Box Recorder. She was in the severe, dreamy centre, singing scheming songs that were deadly serious about trivia, and deeply frivolous about important matters, acting out her role as interpreter and enigma with subversive attention to detail. She sung the songs she found herself singing with a combination of English delicacy and European angst, emphatically blending the neutral and the neurotic, the fragile and the forceful. She sang the songs as if they were bruised lullabies, as if she was soothing the 20th Century to sleep, as if she was a friend of Alice in Wonderland and Sylvia Plath who was quite partial to the Pet Shop Boys and Francoise Hardy. more...