Hyperdub’s Cooly G uses her new album as an expression of sexuality: on tracks like Your Sex, Want, 1st Time, Freak You, her intimate approach to lust and love via deep and dark electronics has shaped one of the label’s most atmospheric releases.
It’s daydreams rather than experiences that form the concepts for the new album from south London-based producer Merrisa Campbell, her spacious synths and nocturnal, near-whispered vocals telling stories of imagined conquests. If her last album Playin’ Me described the gradual breakdown of a relationship, her latest looks towards the future and zones in on her late-night fantasies. “It was what was on my mind, and I could explore my fantasies because I’m a single mum and I don’t have a partner, so, yes, I do feel sexual at times,” she recently told the Quietus. “I’m not gonna phone someone to go and have sex or whatever, so I wait until night when the kids are in bed and I might, you know, dress up myself and do sexy shit and that’s what I’m about. It feels like I can become myself again and that’s good for me.”
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