Escort

During the early 2000s, guitarist/keyboardist Dan Balis and keyboardist Eugene Cho, musicians who met while attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, produced and remixed house tracks for the Brique Rogue and Stay True labels. After opting to move closer to house music's disco roots, the two hatched Escort in 2006 with "Starlight," a contemporary disco single that could have passed for a fresh take on a lost Skyy 12" for Salsoul Records. Recorded with the assistance of several musicians, including vocalists Zena Kitt and Kemba Russell, the self-released 12" featured a dub mix from Metro Area's Darshan Jesrani. Over the next 12 months, they released three more singles: "Love in Indigo," "A Bright New Life," and "All Through the Night." The band's fifth single didn't materialize until three years later, by which point their performing lineup had changed and grown significantly. "Cocaine Blues" (2010) also featured a new lead vocalist, Adeline Michele, and it served as a prelude to the band's first full-length, Escort (2011). A handful of singles followed the next few years and led to Animal Nature (2015), which sounded more like the work of a proper band than a studio project despite an injection of high-gloss pop.

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