July 15th, 2019 11:23am
Looking For A Fight
Grace Ives “Mansion”
“Mansion” is one of those songs that arrives at entirely fresh aesthetic territory by building a bridge between two sounds no one had bothered to connect before – in this case, the twitchy minimalist synth-punk of Le Tigre and the throbbing disco sensuality of Donna Summer. Grace Ives’ arrangement is sparse but carefully calibrated so moments of tension and release overlap in a way that keeps the overall feeling ambiguous and the cathartic bits from feeling obviously signaled. Ives’ voice is terrific too, shifting between a spunky defiance in the verses to a gorgeous wordless moan in the refrain that resembles the elegant timbre of Alison Goldfrapp.
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