From BlackPlasticA little like Trevor Jackson, from the club’s earlier Playgroup release, Stuart Price is one of those quietly influential producers who never became a household name (despite producing Madonna). On the debut eponymously titled album for as Zoot Woman, the trio blend elements of electropop, French Touch, and post punk, with a kind of New Romantic vim. The opening clutch of It’s Automatic, Living In A Magazine and Information First are particularly strong. The former is a blissful slow strut - the aural accompaniment to the sun kissing the horizon. Living In A Magazine more directly evokes the 80s - a little kitsch glamour with low slung bass lines. Zoot Woman still make music but they have never really broken through, and have arguably never delivered a truly essential album. At the same time time? There is lots of style and plenty of ideas on display here.
- Living in a Magazine opens with an image of identity consumed through media — does the album feel like a critique of that world or a celebration of it?No answers yet
- Stuart Price's production is famously precise and controlled — does that discipline enhance or limit the emotional impact of the songs for you?No answers yet
- Zoot Woman wore their influences openly — where did you hear echoes of other artists, and did it feel like homage or something more original?No answers yet
- The album sustains a cool, almost affectless mood throughout — which moment, if any, broke through that surface and genuinely moved you?No answers yet
- It's Automatic uses repetition as its main hook — how far can a pop song lean on a groove alone before it loses you?No answers yet
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