Unapologetically brash, overtly sexual, crazily catchy and entertaining, the charismatic, colourful Canadian electroclash and musician and performance artist Merrill Beth Nisker returns with her seventh LP and first for 11 years, a striking mix of sex, gender identity, freedom of expression, and an antidote to miserable times. Singing, rapping, talking, from the very off it’s full-on wittily explicit release, from opener Hanging Titties, the cleanest lyrics of which are possibly and amusingly: “All you nepo babies need a wet nap / Hey, let me state fact / All you technocrats eat a jockstrap.” There’s no let up: Fuck Your Face, the title track, Whatcha Gonna Do About it, and particularly Panna Cotta Delight (desserts? possibly other meanings …) are packed with clever rhythmic oddities and outrageously inventive phrasing, such as on the latter: “Pay attention ('Tention), your intention ('Tention) / I don't need insurance, I've got pension (Pension) / Yes, I'm old (Old), solid gold (Gold) / A woman in control of all her holes (Holes) / And my roles (Roles), I fill my goals (Goals) / Never come in second, check the poles (Check the poles).” With the album recorded in Berlin and co-written and produced with The Squirt Deluxe, now 59 and hitting the big six-oh this November, Peaches is a fabulous fun, unrestrained and admirably honest artist - refusing to grow old or respectable, constantly offering up a candid look in the mirror from a post-menopausal queer icon reckoning with a society that’s come to expect silence, if not outright erasure. Spectacular, sexy, silly and with a serious side, Peaches may not to be everyone’s taste, but remains a clever, and juicy offering. Out on Kill Rock Stars.
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