| Adigery, Charlotte & Bolis Pupul / Topical Dancer |
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| Album: | Topical Dancer | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Adigery, Charlotte & Bolis Pupul | Added: | Sep 2022 | |
| Label: | DEEWEE | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2023-01-20 | Pull Date: | 2023-03-24 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 26 | Feb 19 | Feb 12 | Feb 5 | Jan 29 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 30, 2023: | Run-Away Radio It Hit Me, Mantra | 4. | Feb 21, 2023: | Virtually Happy Esperanto | |
| 2. | Feb 23, 2023: | Run-Away Radio HAHA | 5. | Feb 17, 2023: | Oh Messy Life Esperanto | |
| 3. | Feb 22, 2023: | Brain worm Ceci N'est Pas Un Cliché. | 6. | Feb 16, 2023: | Run-Away Radio It Hit Me, Mantra, Thank You |
| Album Review |
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| HYPRK Reviewed 2022-09-05 | ||
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Thumping late-night electronica with some serious social commentary. Stylish and dancefloor-ready tracks with confrontational and rebellious lyrics that target xenophobia, cultural appropriation, racism, toxic masculinity, and body negativity. Wry and clever, and sung in both English and French. Co-written and co-produced by electropop OGs Soulwax. An overall fascinating release from an exciting and new Belgium-based duo. All tracks FCC Clean RIYL: Ibibio Sound Machine, Kelly Lee Owens, LCD Soundsystem, Soulwax TRY: 3, 2, 8, 10, 5, 12 (1.) (0:42) Short intro. Collage of voicemails *(2.) (3:34) Growling bassline, chill house beat with silky-sung lyrics tackling racism and xenophobia *(3.) (3:31) Catchy gyrating beat confronting discrimination in the modern age: “go back to your country where you belong / Siri can you tell me where I belong?” (4.) (3:36) Electro/synthpop beat with standout vocals *(5.) (5:33) Hard-hitting industrial beat. Diary entry narrative describing sexual maturity and confronting being catcalled as a young teenager (6.) (4:17) Slick electro beat with French vocals (7.) (5:06) Repetitive silky vocals about reappropriation over a dreamy slow-building cloud-rap beat. Great backup vocals *(8.) (3:46) Stripped-down electro funk love song. Built around a looped groovy bassline with some catchy disco elements (9.) (2:56) Shadowy, brooding beat with French vocals *(10.) (4:21) Body-positive abstract dancefloor banger (11.) (4:00) 80’s synthpop with manipulated vocal samples. Lots of cool art rock elements/references (the song’s title is a nod to the Talking Heads project) *(12.) (3:26) Deep resonating beat built around manipulated laughter samples. Super cool (13.) (5:51) Killer acid house dancefloor shuffler | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Bel DEEWEE | 7. | Reappropriate | |||
| 2. | Esperanto | 8. | Ceci N'est Pas Un Cliché. | |||
| 3. | Blenda | 9. | Huile Smisse | |||
| 4. | Hey | 10. | Mantra | |||
| 5. | It Hit Me | 11. | Making Sense Stop | |||
| 6. | Ich Mwen (Feat. Christiane Adigery) | 12. | HAHA | |||
| 13. | Thank You | |||||