release date: Sep. 8, 2000
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,18]
producer: Peaches
label: Kitty-Yo / XL Recordings - nationality: Canada
Track highlights: 1. "Fuck the Pain Away" - 2. "AA XXX" - 4. "Set It Off" - 5. "Cum Undun" - 8. "Lovertits" - 10. "Sucker"
Studio album debut by Peaches [aka Merrill Beth Nisker] is actually Nicker's second studio album as she released Fancypants Hoodlum in 1995 under the name Merrill Nisker. I haven't come by her actual debut, which I have seen enlisted in the genre of post-punk, and this is stylistically far from that description, and then Peaches is the name she adopted after moving to Berlin and turning to electronic music. Nisker is a Canadian performance artist and when performing as Peaches she's mainly associated with electronic genres as electroclash, electro-disco using elements of glam rock as well as from punk rock.
On this, I also find an influence from industrial sub-genres. Apparently, Nisker now lives in Berlin, and thinking of that, it seem easier to associate her with Nina Hagen. Like the German art punker, Peaches make use of shock and provocation as means in creating her musical persona. She often refers to and speak explicitly about sex - both as subject as well as a natural ingredient of her language.
The Teaches of Peaches is far from bad. It really reflect great hooks and tracks, although, some songs come out as mere fillers and / or experiments. Anyway, the overall rating may not do justice to the originality of this.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 3,5 / 5 stars ]
