I can feel you creep into my private life

"On the great cultural appropriation reckoning of recent years, most of the focus fell on mainstream pop and hip-hop. But Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus, who drew freely from global styles across three alt-pop albums, is too curious an artist to accept a free pass, and wrestles thorny issues of race, privilege and platform on her fourth ... No easy answers are found, but the new energy here suggests Honesty - the title of a standout techno'n'sax track - has set Tune-Yards free to keep asking".

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""It's giving me a heart attack-ack-ack" blurts Merrill Garbus at the start the first Tune-Yards release in nearly four years. What's "it"? Take your pick - global warming (the funky single "ABC 123" invokes Elizabeth Kolbert's tour de force The Sixth Extinction), gender tyrannies ("I don't wanna be a woman/If it means not being a human" Garbus insists on "Now As Then"), the weight of racial history (she interrogates "the blood in my voice" on "Colonizer"). They're just some of the triggers on an LP determined to conjure kinetic joy while staring down our present cultural fright show - and which is more potent for it".

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"Få har et mere halsstarrigt originalt udtryk end Merrill Garbus opbakket af Nate Brenner i Tune-Yards. En kantet eksperimentel pop, som trods sin introverte nerve og sit rytmekaos leverer et stærkt følelsesladet udtryk inspireret af rap. På første udspil i 4 år er Tune-Yards så eksperimenterende som nogensinde, men endnu mere medrivende ... Et album sprængfærdigt af lige dele alvorlig begavelse og ny musikalsk begejstring".

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