With the scream of the opener that whips up the hair on the back of the neck and the sadistic orgies of the video for “God Is A Circle”, Yves Tumor first crawls down the circles of hell, shortly afterwards climbs up again on angel choirs and finally slips away completely in the paradisiacal promise of salvation of a “beloved saint”: Das fifth album by the Turin-based artists:in is an apocalyptic, grandiose ride through extremes. Post-punk and darkwave elements naturally come together with voluptuous synthpop on “Lovely Sewer”, while “Purifed By The Fire” effortlessly stumbles from boom bap into a stoic industrial march.
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The album is framed by an instinct for layering and collaging sound, thanks to Frank Ocean producer Noah Goldstein and Tumor’s electronica past. Her mature voice also winds its way through submissive, sometimes demonic, sometimes unusually shy registers, carried by a bitingly sexy groove. As gloomy as it all sounds, it is meant to be self-ironic, because PRAISE A LORD… is a comedy with the clichés of rock history, which the artist:in gives a queer makeover.
“Parody of a pop star? Is it all just make up?” Tumor wonders halfway through the album – and it’s true, the brazen invocation of Prince, Iggy or Bowie has something of the costume about it. In the end, however, Yves Tumor’s own radical vision shines through the leather robes, and if that doesn’t work out with paradise, then with this release at the latest she is well on the way to pop Olympus herself.
Author: Sonja Ella Matuszczyk
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