After a series of outstanding singles, the British artist Jojo Orme releases her debut full LP of inventive, goth-tinged post-punk, with echoes of Siouxsie Sioux and PJ Harvey, and produced the the ever inventive Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label. Explosive powerful vocals, searing guitars, military anti-war and tricky relationships are recurring themes, but it’s the arresting musical style that leap out. Just Ask To Dance and Mad Catch are jagged, troubled love songs: “I don’t have a chance / To ask for a dance from you / I’m so shy it pains me.” and “Match made in a hat / Where’s the magic in that? / It’s a mad mad catch,” while Jacked is packed with dark, self-deprecatory humour about descent into delirium and has a striking, helicopter-chop guitar sound, riveting and exciting. But Extraordinary Wings and Warplane offer the most arresting centrepieces to the song, the former an anti-war number, the latter dedicated to William Gibson Gordon, “a Spitfire pilot who was killed in action by an Me109 at just 20 years old. The song ends how I imagine his falling Spitfire sounds to me, like an angel losing its extraordinary wings.” Dark, dangerous and powerful, a strikingly original artist with a monochrome style of edgy power. Out on Speedy Wunderground.
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