(Human Level)
"You can't illegalise love," is the rallying cry of Planningtorock's third album, a record about gender and the queer, black roots of dance music. With song titles such as Beyond Binary Binds, it would sound like a cultural studies dissertation, if it weren't all couched in surprisingly banging tunes such as Public Love. Even her more cerebral deconstructed house tracks – Misogyny Drop Dead, say – are not a million miles from Gang Gang Dance. Best known, perhaps, for being in cahoots with the Knife, Planningtorock used to be Janine Rostron from Bolton; long based in Berlin, she has changed her name to Jam and mischievously pitch-shifts her vocals, hanging them somewhere between male and female.
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