Topical Dancer Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul SKU: 24.00 26.00 £24.00 - £26.00 £24.00 - £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Deewee Released Date: 4th March 2022 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download CodeClear Topical Dancer quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE. Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink. Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent. Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we’re making something that already exists, so we’re always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.” Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.” ‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.” On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.” “sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” – The Guardian “striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” – Pitchfork “Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” – Vogue “A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all.” – The New York Times on Thank You Artist Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul Genre Rock And Pop Label Deewee Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code , 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Bel DEEWEE Esperanto Blenda Hey It Hit Me Ich Mwen (with Christiane Adigéry) Reappropriate Ceci N'est Pas Un Cliché Huile Smisse Mantra Making Sense Stop HAHA Thank You Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop Nearly New View Product Quick View Black Angels Passover Psychedelia / Garage | Light In The Attic | 2LP Released 28th March 2024 £45.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Black Angels Passover £45.00 Genre: Psychedelia / Garage Label: Light In The Attic SKU: nn283436 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 28th March 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Joni Mitchell Court and Spark (SACD) Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | SACD Release Date TBC £46.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Joni Mitchell Court and Spark (SACD) £46.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: CMFSA2273 Formats: SACD Released Date: Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Half Waif form/a Rock And Pop | Cascine | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 24th February 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Half Waif form/a £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cascine SKU: CSN091 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 24th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View La Roux Supervision Rock And Pop | Supercolour Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 7th February 2020 £12.99 - £18.00 £18.00 Select options La Roux Supervision £12.99 - £18.00 £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Supercolour Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 7th February 2020 Read More Select options On Sale View Product Quick View Stealin Horses Stealin Horses Rock And Pop | Miscellaneous Released 25th April 2010 £2.00 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Stealin Horses Stealin Horses £2.00 £5.00 Genre: Rock And Pop SKU: NN53918 Formats: Miscellaneous Released Date: 25th April 2010 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Helen Ganya polish the machine Rock And Pop | Bella Union | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th November 2022 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Helen Ganya polish the machine £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bella Union SKU: BELLA1355V Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View David Tattersall Group, The The David Tattersall Group Rock And Pop | Bella Union | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 6th October 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders David Tattersall Group, The The David Tattersall Group £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bella Union SKU: BELLA1532V Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tallest Man On Earth, The Too Late For Edelweiss Rock And Pop | Anti | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 18th August 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tallest Man On Earth, The Too Late For Edelweiss £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Anti SKU: 279671 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 18th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Maylee Todd Maloo Rock And Pop | Stones Throw | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th March 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Maylee Todd Maloo £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Stones Throw SKU: STH2435LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan Triplicate Rock And Pop | Columbia | 3LP Released 28th March 2017 £38.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Dylan Triplicate £38.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia SKU: 88985413501 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 28th March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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