Peaches - I Feel Cream
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Peaches is a Canadian-born electroclash artist (who was roommates with Feist in Toronto at one point) and currently resides in Berlin. I Feel Cream is her fourth release using the Peaches moniker, but her very first album was released under her real name, Merrill Nisker. She fills her songs with sexual imagery, frequently focusing on gender identity and sexuality, and plays most of the instruments on the songs herself. Peaches has remixed tracks from a large number of artists (Daft Punk, Le Tigre, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Basement Jaxx, Tone Loc, The Bird and the Bee) and her music has been featured on several movies (Lost in Translation, Mean Girls) and TV shows (Ugly Betty, The L Word).
Most of the songs on I Feel Cream are overly repetitious ("More," "Take You On," “Mommy Complex”) or too minimalistic ("Billionaire," "Relax," "Trick or Treat"), but these things are, unfortunately, the hallmarks of electroclash…though a few select artists occasionally manage to transcend the genre. The Soulwax-produced "Talk to Me" is one of the better tracks on the album and has a retro sound like something you might hear from The Scissor Sisters. "Lose You" is more subdued, but has a similar feel and "Mud" creates a nice downtempo vibe. Another one of the best songs, "I Feel Cream" is musically like a more upfront version of “Blinded By the Lights” by The Streets, but without the perfectly accurate drug references.
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A couple of these new songs are sonically better than anything else that Peaches has ever created, but she may have reached her peak lyrically on The Teaches of Peaches album with lines like, “Sucking on my titties like you wanted me, / calling me all the time, like Blondie / check out my Chrissie be-Hynde / it's fine all of the time, / like sex on the beach is / what else is in the Teaches of Peaches?” from the song “Fuck the Pain Away.” Only time will tell, but, in the meantime, more girls singing about titties couldn’t hurt.
