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The brand new studio album from post-punk bass/dub master Jah Wobble is a collaboration with Manchester's rising star Julie Campbell, who issued an acclaimed album on Warp as Lonelady in 2010. Psychic Life sees Wobble reunited with fellow ex-PiL guitarist Keith Levene for the first time since the groundbreaking Metal Box album.
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Jah Wobble's made so many records in the past 20 years, it's difficult to keep track. And every one of them is so different. 2008's Chinese Dub was a highwatermark creatively. But this is something else. On Psychic Life, he's hooked up with Julie Campbell (who's signed to Warp as LoneLady - last year's Nerve Up album rightly attracted a lot of praise) - she's from Wobble's adopted town of Manchester. But what's really got old Public Image fans excited is the return of JW's old sparring partner Keith Levene. The pair were the driving force on PiL's acclaimed Metal Box, after all.
Psychic Life, then, has a lot at stake, and the preview single 'Tightrope' suggested a slick yet still (appropriately) taut amalgam of post-punk edginess and the gloss of New York late 70s disco. Although it's a cracker (suck on that, Madonna and Moloko and all the rest of 'em), 'Tightrope' isn't really representative of the album as a whole (although 'Feel' maybe shares that same nod to the dancefloor). The title track is more so: a tense, yearning, rolling, pulsing entity driven by Wobble's undulating bass and Julie's anxious vocals. A sense of the cathaertic release pervades, too.
But those hungry for the bleak, unsettling spirit of Metal Box might find solace instead in the scratchy 'Phantasms Rise', with its loping time signature, the sparse beauty of 'Isaura' or the dreamlike qualities of 'Bare Square'. Leven's guitar, although muted in places, twists and turns across the music in typically unrestrained manner. By contrast, 'Ruinlist' and 'Slavetown' might be rooted in Wobble's 70s love of jazz, soul and funk in its myriad guises.
Psychic Life, then, is not just half a PiL reunion but a whole body of work which runs the gamut of influences (other than maybe world music) you'd expect from Wobble, diverse yet unified around the frankly gripping voice of Julie Campbell. A little revelation.
Psychic Life, then, has a lot at stake, and the preview single 'Tightrope' suggested a slick yet still (appropriately) taut amalgam of post-punk edginess and the gloss of New York late 70s disco. Although it's a cracker (suck on that, Madonna and Moloko and all the rest of 'em), 'Tightrope' isn't really representative of the album as a whole (although 'Feel' maybe shares that same nod to the dancefloor). The title track is more so: a tense, yearning, rolling, pulsing entity driven by Wobble's undulating bass and Julie's anxious vocals. A sense of the cathaertic release pervades, too.
But those hungry for the bleak, unsettling spirit of Metal Box might find solace instead in the scratchy 'Phantasms Rise', with its loping time signature, the sparse beauty of 'Isaura' or the dreamlike qualities of 'Bare Square'. Leven's guitar, although muted in places, twists and turns across the music in typically unrestrained manner. By contrast, 'Ruinlist' and 'Slavetown' might be rooted in Wobble's 70s love of jazz, soul and funk in its myriad guises.
Psychic Life, then, is not just half a PiL reunion but a whole body of work which runs the gamut of influences (other than maybe world music) you'd expect from Wobble, diverse yet unified around the frankly gripping voice of Julie Campbell. A little revelation.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is, in my opion, brilliant. Jah has always been the best bass player of this generation, pushing the instrument to it's limits, but with Julie, singing as well, stunning.
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Got it booming out of my system again this morning & even the Mrs likes it! & she's as hard to please as someone who's very hard to please!
Love the sound of Mr Wobble's fuzzy bass & the voice is amazing too!
Nice that he's got Keith involved too.
Check out 'Tightrope' on youtube!
Love the sound of Mr Wobble's fuzzy bass & the voice is amazing too!
Nice that he's got Keith involved too.
Check out 'Tightrope' on youtube!
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