A fun, full-throttle amphetamine-inducing and enhancing LP of pumping, electrifying energy by the post-punk-electronica-dance-rock Los Angeles duo of Brady Keehn and Melissa Scadutom, described as “a vulnerable record that bares its soul as much as it revels in excess” and one also “showing just how far you can push your sound when you shake off your inhibitions”. There are two sides to this record – it’s unflinching sweaty Berlin techno or Brooklyn warehouse dance music, a muscular bass explosive bomb, a white-knuckle ride of sexy, joyous extreme, from Women Respond to Bass, S Is For, 99 Bongos, Freak Eyes or Rearrange, the trance-pop of Kids (featuring Izzy Glaudini from Automatic), and the fabulously bouncy Push Ups has vocals from former Savages singer Jehnny Beth, smashing it out with fleshed out by synths that hammer as hard as lumps of hail on a glass roof. But while the musical energy continues throughout, there’s also a darker, more vulnerable and serious side to lyrics, such as Hospital and Soggy Newports recounting Scaduto’s harrowing experience in a New York state-run facility after a near-fatal accident, while the pumping, angry Resist tackles abortion rights, and the slower, more robot-style Penny Rose explores the subject of US education, AI, and future generations. Strap yourselves in. It’s a wild, exciting ride. Out on Sacred Bones Records.
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