The confusion with the expectations of expectations perfected Emma-Jean Thackray. “Wanna Die” is the name of the first single publication from Weirdo, the British’s new album. But after just a few seconds, Thackray assures that she does not want to get to death: “I Don’t Wanna die, i just if wanna sleep a while.” And soon the story somehow turns our bad reality into this: “I Don’t Wanna the, Except for all the time I do.”
Many deaths die and continue to live in the jazz radio, so you could describe the dialectic in the artist’s work, which, as a trumpeter, composer and producer, has enriched the jazz scene in the UK so much in recent years. So now Weirdo, a meditation in the light of the dance floor, with a latin slack side on “Save Me”, as a late-night drampop dancefloor offer (“tofu”) or played in the direction of Drum’n’bass-Jazz (“It’s Okay”, featuring Kassa Overall).
In the panorama lavishly created with 19 tracks, Thackray reflects on mortality, resilience, loneliness and self -doubt (“Something Wrong With Your Mind”). In Weirdo, however, the difficult topics are regularly light -played, which also applies to the more balladesque pieces. She recorded and produced in her own apartment in Südlondon, the cover photo shows Emma-Jean how she takes a bathroom, the game leg moves beyond the edge of the tub.
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