Annette Peacock – I’m The One
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What an album cover. I’ve had two copies of this – an early one picked up in Glasgow that I stupidly traded, and then this copy that I picked up in Sheffield record store where it was hanging on the wall, much to the chagrin of my beat-diggin friend in the store with me, who had been after it for years.
Annette Peacock is an avant-garde jazz artist who experimented a lot with early synthesizers and vocal modulation in her work. She still gigs and records, and is vastly under-rated, maybe because her work is rarely as receptive to the mainstream as other slept-on female artists like Vashti Bunyan and Judie Sill.
I’m The One is a monster of an album, mixing free-jazz workouts with sleazy synth funk. ‘Pony’ is the stand out track, a filthy 6 minutes of sex-chat and moaning over a lazy, looping bass riff, skittering drums and sci-fi synths. Last.fm has an excerpt here:
www.last.fm/music/Annette+Peacock/_/Pony
gorgeous
