Wonderfully inventive, eccentric new LP of talky electronica, dance, funk, jazz and pop by gender fluid persona of Becca Kauffman, the performance artist, vocalist, and voice over artist based in New York City., as well as vocalist with Brooklyn group Ava Luna. This is a gem of unpredictable oddness, electronica, talky sections, funny voices and in her videos, of course, striking costumes. Standouts include the squelchy beats of Take Me For A Ride, the 80s beat-goes-on Body Music, the weird mix of acoustic instruments stumbling into on-and-off drum’n’bass on Humility’s Disease, the clubby beats and robot voice in the title track, but most of all Jennifer Pastoral, a tremendous odyssey of animal sounds, observations, and whistles fused with electro dance beats that later break into free-flowing jazz with a fabulously funky momentum.
The fantastical official description of the album and the Vanilla persona is: “Born in a dewdrop high up in the sky in an idyllic realm known as “Jenniferia,” the sexless humanoid alien Jennifer Vanilla opened a portal to the eastern coast of the United States using a magical braid that became entangled with the earthling artist Becca Kauffman. Together, the two embarked upon a musical adventure that ignited the imaginations of countless humans. A quintessentially 80s name (the decade of Kauffman’s birth), Jennifer became Kauffman’s everyperson, an archetypal mold for building connection with strangers.
The only tangible comparison in this wondrously unself-conscious kooky dance club costumery is Ireland’s Roisin Murphy, and that certainly is a compliment. Quirky, restless, yet strangely restrained too, but packed with offbeat charisma, it’s a tremendously fun album packed with playful twists. Out on Sinderlyn.
Jennifer Vanilla aka Becca Kaufmann
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