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After the breakup of his debauched rock & roll group <a href="spotify:artist:60NKN6tZYKbkjX1qpFQIqF">Louis XIV</a> in 2009, <a href="spotify:artist:14k3sqJY0QDSxZmUpKJKM2">Jason Hill</a> retreated to the Hollywood Hills studio he bought and outfitted with vintage recording gear to begin working on solo material. Bringing in friends old and new, like drummers Dominic Howard from <a href="spotify:artist:12Chz98pHFMPJEknJQMWvI">Muse</a> and Dave Elitch of <a href="spotify:artist:75U40yZLLPglFgXbDVnmVs">Mars Volta</a> and bassists <a href="spotify:artist:0xoQth0DUaauLf3A5sNveW">Mark Stoermer</a> of <a href="spotify:artist:0C0XlULifJtAgn6ZNCW2eu">the Killers</a> and Nick Fyffe, who had played with <a href="spotify:artist:6J7biCazzYhU3gM9j1wfid">Jamiroquai</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:14k3sqJY0QDSxZmUpKJKM2">Hill</a> worked steadily putting together an album based on <a href="spotify:artist:2OHv44DhLk2RmxxOtK25fe">Aldous Huxley</a>'s 1931 novel Brave New World. While doing this <a href="spotify:artist:14k3sqJY0QDSxZmUpKJKM2">Hill</a> also found time to produce and play on <a href="spotify:artist:0WhGV9lzljq2QKJ8ipw6jx">the New York Dolls</a>' 2011 album Dancing Backward in High Heels, start a record label (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Fancy+Animal%22">Fancy Animal</a>), work with <a href="spotify:artist:4ylR3zwA0zaapAu94fktwa">Macy Gray</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5H0YoDsPDi9fObFmJtTjfN">Ariel Pink</a>, and re-form <a href="spotify:artist:60NKN6tZYKbkjX1qpFQIqF">Louis XIV</a>. <a href="spotify:artist:14k3sqJY0QDSxZmUpKJKM2">Hill</a> gave his own project the name Vicky Cryer and the results of the years of sessions, the Synthetic Love of Emotional Engineering album, were released on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Fancy+Animal%22">Fancy Animal</a> in 2013. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi
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