Jane Weaver – The Revolution of Super Visions
- NICK DUTFIELD
- Nov 12, 2020
- 2 min read
Do You Look At Yourself And Find Nothing? asks Jane Weaver in her new track, The Revolution Of Super Visions. It´s one of those Yes/No questions that is supposed to be a conversation killer, especially if the response is no. Yesses can take you off down a tunnel of When?s, Where?s and How often?s. But is it a tunnel or a path? Did the artist Cindy Sherman kick off with this question? The video to The Revolution Of Super Visions (or is it Supervixens?) made me think of her work (except here the male gaze gets a be-suited personification), and if that question ever hit her, it might have put her on the photographic career path she has followed, one where she changes identities with every shot. Are we supposed to believe she has always been finding nothing?
Let´s dump questions now and do some statements. Weaver´s last album Modern Kosmology was a big winner back in 2017. Not just for me either, everybody loved it. Alex Petridis described the songwriting as “richly melodic, taut and fat /free” and this was bolted to analogue synths, propulsive rhythms and a knack for production freshness. The Revolution of Super Visions takes its sharpest turn away from those rhythms while maintaining the mood. In fact, it seems like we´ve entered a world of funk, with heavy loaded front beats and a guitar twingling in the backdraft. Not that things aren´t spooky. Remember the question Do You Ever Look At Yourself And Find Nothing? - James Brown never put it quite like that.
On a less esoteric and more practical tip, we should take a quick look at the high pop apocalyptic vision currently on show from the Spanish group The Crab Apples and their track Cucarachas. Despite the Spanish title we get solidly English lyrics pointing out the inevitable - Only The Cockroaches Will Survive. Okay, they are hardly the first to point this out, but has anyone ever made it sound so cheerful?
THIS WEEK
Jane Weaver – The Revolution Of Super Visions
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EXTRAS
The Crab Apples – Cucarachas
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