How Provocative is Peaches’ New Album?
source: http://www.doublex.com/section/arts/how-provocative-peaches%E2%80%99-new-album
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Peaches may still be best known for her 2000 debut album, The Teaches of Peaches, which the former Toronto elementary schoolteacher (née Merrill Nesker) recorded in her bedroom and which featured the poppy and relentless club hit “F*** the Pain Away.” The song made certain that a stereo was not just a vessel but also a dagger. Catchy and mantra-laden, the songs on Teaches buzzed with distorted, fuzzed-out beats, with sexual provocation, with dares. Lusty chainsaws. (Listen to "F*** the Pain Away," which contains, obviously, mature language.) Peaches came crashing through, bold and fearless; she incited a near Bacchanalia among certain music fans, particularly those eager to marry gender, queer, and feminist studies with performance art and a driving, danceable beat.
Peaches’ latest release, I Feel Cream, is less of an exercise in meta-music than its predecessors were. But it remains self-referential. The album continues the ongoing dialogue Peaches has had with herself, with art, and with us: a conversation about identity, power, politics, sex, and about her love/hate relationship with our culture’s seemingly irrepressible voyeuristic lens. The opening track, “Serpentine,” is a veritable list of what Peaches is and isn’t. She suggests we’ll never know for sure and—guess what—she doesn’t care. (Listen to "Serpentine.")
http://media.slate.com/media/slate/Podcasts/doubleX_sound/Peaches-Serpentine.mp3
Peaches’ latest release, I Feel Cream, is less of an exercise in meta-music than its predecessors were. But it remains self-referential. The album continues the ongoing dialogue Peaches has had with herself, with art, and with us: a conversation about identity, power, politics, sex, and about her love/hate relationship with our culture’s seemingly irrepressible voyeuristic lens. The opening track, “Serpentine,” is a veritable list of what Peaches is and isn’t. She suggests we’ll never know for sure and—guess what—she doesn’t care. (Listen to "Serpentine.")
http://media.slate.com/media/slate/Podcasts/doubleX_sound/Peaches-Serpentine.mp3
