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Album of the week:
Kylie Minogue - "Disco"
When the night is deepest, the disco ball glistens the brightest: Who would not like to indulge in an intoxicating night in the club during these dark days of corona frustration - and forget their worries for at least a few hours while dancing?
A good 50 years ago, the energetic groove, which is now called disco music, first served as a crisis helper: the subcultures, gays and lesbians, blacks and Latinos, fled from discrimination, racism and politics in major US cities in the early 1970s
-Economic hangover
mood in the
safe space of
the discotheque or in the balloon-colored utopia of David Mancuso's loft parties.
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Kylie Minogue
DISCO (Deluxe Edition)
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So it's no wonder that the hedonistic sound is experiencing a revival again in the crisis year 2020.
The Australian singer Kylie Minogue is now at the forefront of the trend after colleagues like Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga and Jessie Ware, who have put defiant dance accents against the lockdown in recent months.
Their new album is not only called "Disco", with its great melodies, pumping bass and driving rhythms, it sometimes sounds as if it was created at the height of the first disco fever.
It was largely produced by the Danish-Norwegian duo PhD, Peter Wallevik and Daniel Davidsen, who fused the warm glitter and tinsel ambience of the 1970s with contemporary electronic club music.
Musically quite a jump from Kylie's country album "Golden" from 2018. But who back then - huh, back then!
- attended one of her concerts, for example in Berlin's Berghain, met hordes of Tom of Finland imitations who waved their cowboy hats to pay homage to their disco goddess on stage.
Minogue now completely embraces this role as queer icon and dancing queen with "Disco" - right up to the pointer sisters parody in the all too jittery "Where Does The DJ Go?"
Did we really miss Hi-NRG?
Andreas Borcholte's playlist
Photo:
Christian O. Bruch / laif
Kylie Minogue: Unstoppable
Giggs: Debonair
Haiyti: Comeback
Goat Girl: Sad Cowboy
Herman Dune: Freak Out Til The Morning Dew
Chris Stapleton: Starting over
Euroteuro: Natascha
Ducks on Drugs: I am your pain
Benee: Happen To Me
Pole: hooded crow
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As early as 2001, after their reinvention with the album "Light Years", Minogue filled the dance floor.
Back then, the 9/11 shock certainly contributed to the fact that Minogue's single "Can't Get You Out of My Head" was so successful and brought the teen star of the eighties ("Locomotion") a lasting comeback as a dancing queen.
Today the 52-year-old sings in hits like "Magic" or "Say Something" about the longing for the dance floor - and the release of not having to think about possible consequences the next morning.
Not everything sounds original, how should it?
Much would merge seamlessly into a pop decade pervasive endless discomix, but "Monday Blues" stumbles into a messed up funk gallop, you can even feel the effort in Kylie's strained singing.
Nostalgia is the big topic, musically anyway, but also lyrically everything longs to go back to old, free-moving times: "Sing it Back", the neo-disco smasher from Moloko, Kylie not only copies with "Miss a Thing", she quotes one Line from its refrain later also in "Supernova".
But it doesn't matter.
When it comes to a relieving groove against the general tension, you don't want to be fussy.
"Three minutes of escapism and euphoria, that's what people need," Minogue said in a recent interview about her new mission.
And this magic works in her "Disco", which is almost completely recorded in her home studio.
Even if dancing is only possible in the living room or in the kitchen.
(7.5)
Listened briefly:
Pole - "fading"
Stefan Betke aka Pole recently re-released the groundbreaking dub trilogy for minimal techno of the early 2000s - a soundtrack for the lockdown-empty city.
"Fading" picks up on this: Inspired by his mother's dementia, it's about memory loss - and so the Berliner's tracks crackle sadly into the disappearance of club culture.
(9.0)
Tiña - "Positive Mental Health Music"
Can you imagine Coldplay as a depressive band?
Not really, but Tiña, a band from London, have the same lively melodies and hooks, positive, but without any oppressive euphoria.
Singer Joshua Loftin, who likes to wear a pink cowboy hat, deals with a serious psychological crisis on this debut with a lot of Britpop soul.
Also suitable for Eels fans.
(7.2)
Herman Dune - "Notes From Vinegar Hill"
Vinegar Hill is an area in San Pedro near LA, where the Swedish-French musician David-Ivar Herman Düne has been writing sympathetically twisted folk-pop songs for years, sometimes with a dog barking in the background.
Charles Bukowski lived here;
So you can hear this album as a hobo homage, musically it's a bow to the "Big Pink" sound of The Band.
And incredibly touching.
(7.8)
Giggs - "Now Or Never"
Even after more than ten years, you can't get a grip on the rapper from Peckham: His albums regularly land high in the British charts, but his cool, reggae-relaxed gangsta flow is neither grime nor trap.
On this mixtape Giggs compares himself to Popeye ("All Spinach") and poses himself politically as the soul brother of the BLM movement ("Debonair").
UK Rap Superfly
(7.2)