New York is a city of mythological proportions, a global capital where dreams are made or squashed. And yet, New York is also a place where millions of regular people live without anything of note happening to them. It is this juxtaposition between hype and anonymity, bombast and ordinariness that the duo of Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba mine for inspiration as the band New York. Born and bred pop-music fans who just moved to the city after several years in London, they deflate expectations: Their music is low-budget and low-energy — anhedonic sleepover-rap meets underground electropop, like Coco & Clair Clair but even more minimal. “The main emphasis of a lot of young music is to get really lit and overstimulated, and we don’t necessarily relate to that,” Lawrence says.

New York’s

See Full Page