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 View Product Quick View Kane Strang Two Hearts And No Brain (Indies Only) Rock And Pop | Dead Oceans | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th June 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kane Strang Two Hearts And No Brain (Indies Only) £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Dead Oceans SKU: DOC126LP-C1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sweet Enoughs, The Marshmallow Rock And Pop | Wondercore Island | 1LP Released 19th May 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sweet Enoughs, The Marshmallow £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Wondercore Island SKU: WCI008 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Timber Timbre Timber Timbre Rock And Pop | Full Time Hobby | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th June 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Timber Timbre Timber Timbre £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Full Time Hobby SKU: FTH101LPS Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Everclear So Much For The Afterglow Rock And Pop | Intervention Records | 180g, 1LP Released 2nd December 2022 £51.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Everclear So Much For The Afterglow £51.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Intervention Records SKU: IR-007 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Abba Fernando Rock And Pop | UMC | 7", Picture Disc Released 7th October 2016 £9.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Abba Fernando £9.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: UMC5077 Formats: 7", Picture Disc Released Date: 7th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dawes Nothing Is Wrong (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rock And Pop | ATO | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes 7" Released 19th November 2021 £25.00 Select options Dawes Nothing Is Wrong (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: ATO Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes 7" Released Date: 19th November 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Grateful Dead Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO (12/10/71) Rock And Pop | RBDO 2171 | 5LP, Box Set Released 1st October 2021 £99.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Grateful Dead Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO (12/10/71) £99.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RBDO 2171 SKU: 0603497844449 Formats: 5LP, Box Set Released Date: 1st October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View JC Flowers Driving Excitement and The Pleasure Rock And Pop | ATP Recordings | 1LP Released 13th May 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders JC Flowers Driving Excitement and The Pleasure £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: ATP Recordings SKU: ATPRLP61 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Kane Coup De Grace Rock And Pop | Virgin Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th August 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Kane Coup De Grace £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin Records SKU: V3208 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View How To Dress Well Care Rock And Pop | Weird World | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 23rd September 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders How To Dress Well Care £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Weird World SKU: WEIRD057LP Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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