What does Wednesday bring? It brings four slices of X rated, road tested, dance floor bangers from Jezebell, Jesse and Darren blurring the boundaries of edit/ remix/ new music and in single entendre mode. Cream Tease opens with Hung and ends with Donkey with The Big Time and Darren's Theme sandwiched in between. Hung is slo mo and crunchy, a grinder. There are voices chanting half way through, flickers of call and response. The Big Time kicks on, faster and harder, streamlined and in full flow, Visage taken for a whirl around the floor, pulses raised with an arena level breakdown and power chords, spinning so fast now we're barely in control.
Darren's Theme is more basic, a reducer- late 80s jack rhythms, a siren, and a snatch of vocal from Karen Finley's Tales Of Taboo, snarling 'oh let me suck your...'. Later on the reply comes. Karen Finley's Tales Of Taboo is so X rated that even listening to it in the car on your own, you feel like you should be apologising to somebody for what they can hear. Just a two second sample from it carries the same illicit surge.
Don't let the part in brackets fool you. That isn't a daytime radio friendly version.
Cream Tease finishes itself off with Donkey, an edit/ mashed up version of Don Quichotte, high camp/ Europop 1984 single by French outfit Magazine 60, the vocals flipping between French and English, Jesse and Darren demonstrating there are no stones they will leave unturned in their endless search for the goods. Get your Cream Tease at Bandcamp.
1 comment:
I feel dirty just reading your post, Adam!
Great review of a great EP. It’s been a stellar year for Jesse & Darren, sonically speaking.
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