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Posted: 16 Feb 2014 01:00 AM PST
 
On 2011′s eerily compelling album W, Planningtorock came wrapped in mystery — not to mention an astonishing facial prosthesis. Designed to undercut the typical assessment of a female singer’s looks, the heavy brow and nose shifted Jam Rostron’s identity as much as her pitched-down vocals, making her look like a beautiful and terrifying cross between a Roman emperor and intergalactic queen. On third album All Love’s Legal, however, the Bolton-raised, Berlin-based electronic musician, producer and video artist strips things back, heading straight for the gender-political jugular with a sharpened sense of intent. Worried that the lyrical ambiguities of W weren’t reflecting the issues most important in her life, Rostron found a new directness in last year’s remix of friends The Knife’s track “Full Of Fire” — retitled “Let’s Talk About Gender, Baby, Let’s Talk About You & Me” — and the Misogyny Drop Dead EP. With all All Love’s Legal, she pushes her message into the pulsing heart of the dance floor: “I don’t want to wait/ patriarchal life you’re out of date.” |
