I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life

I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life is the fourth album from the New England duo, Tune-Yards. Written by songwriter Merrill Garbus and bandmate Nate Brenner, like previous releases, the album oozes DIY collage. This album, however, seeks to place itself within the political sphere: fusing cut-up vocals and samples with house and disco with a lyrical content that sits the album at the centre of current social justice conversations.

Over the bouncing beats and disco basslines of ‘Colonizer,’ Garbus sings: “I use my white woman’s voice to tell stories of travels with African men…I turn on my white woman’s voice to contextualise acts of my white woman friends.”

This avant-pop album, contains a wide range of imaginative and quirky soundscapes and cross-genre songs, most notably, the chaos-disco-fusion of the opening track ‘Heart Attack’ and dissonant-choral-dub track, ‘Home’.

I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life is undoubtedly a provocative album, through which Tune-Yards aim to challenge not only musical tastes but accepted social normalities. The album is available as a limited edition clear 12" vinyl in an alternative sleeve and poster.

Audio

Tracklist

1. Heart Attack
2. Coast To Coast
3. ABC 123
4. Now As Then
5. Honesty
6. Colonizer
7. Look At Your Hands
8. Home
9. Hammer
10. Who Are You
11. Private Life
12. Free

Details

Released: January 2018
Cat: 4AD0052LPE / 4AD