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Wow this album has so much to offer and it's pretty fabulous & addictive. Such varieties yet everything fits together perfectly. Rock and a Hard Place, could easily be a Lene Lovich track from 1983. I love her vocals & slaying lyrics absolutely stellar album. Hard to pick a favorite track there are so many great ones.
Favorite track: Speed of Light.
Since first splashing on to the Southern California circuit in the mid- aughts, Geneva Jacuzzi (née Garvin) quickly cemented herself as the queen of the Los Angeles underground. Her immersive and unhinged multimedia performances are the stuff of legend, a psychotropic gallery of masks, costumes, confrontation, and massive art installations. Jacuzzi’s recordings are equally revered, catchy hooks and cryptic moods dusted in 4-track grit. The arrival of her third official full-length, and Dais Records debut, is cause for such celebration. 'Triple Fire' vividly expands and crystallizes Jacuzzi’s signature fusion of midnight melody and mutant aerobics across a 12-track hit parade of wildcard synth-pop and sly post-apocalyptic camp. Her enthusiasm for the album is as bold as her body of work: “Halfway through, we started calling this the record of the prophecy, the record that’s going to save mankind.”
Opener "Laps of Luxury" sets the template – a strobe-lit dreamer’s delight of swaggering synth bass, Haçienda drum machinery, and sultry vocal spellcasting ("Tragic mysteries I’ve known for centuries / I burned all memories and turned to fantasy"). The collection burns through shades of sardonic strut ("Art Is Dangerous," "Nu2U," co-produced by Josh da Costa, "Keep It Secret"), coldwave kiss off ("Speed Of Light," co-produced by Andrew Clinco of Drab Majesty), retro-futurist body music ("Dry," "Scene Ballerina," "Bow Tie Eater"), and cheeky glitterball pop ("Take It Or Leave It," "Heart Full Of Poison" co-produced by Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs). She likens the eclectic spectrum of moods to the continuum of human emotions: "Funny, sexy, sad, scary, witty, hopeful, menacing. Eventually it deconstructs, turns into a party, and then ends sweet and soft. Like a horror film, watched in reverse."
Taken as a whole, 'Triple Fire' comes as close as any document yet to capturing Jacuzzi’s kaleidoscopic alchemy of pop sugar and chaos energy, flickering between icy and ironic, chic and surreal, hungry and heartsick. Hers is a muse as rare as it is regenerative, forever reborn at the precipice of the next chorus: "Someone said that Alcatraz had fallen into the sea / Almost sounded like an angel calling me in a dream / I felt an electric shock when I picked up the microphone."
credits
released August 23, 2024
Written and produced by Geneva Jacuzzi
Mixed by Chris Coady
Mastered by Mike Bozzi
Photography by Nedda Afsari
Design and layout by Geneva Jacuzzi
Jewelry by Stacy Ellen Rich
"Laps of Luxury": lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi and Roderick Edens;
produced by Geneva Jacuzzi, co-produced by Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs; additional percussion by Chris Santiago
"Art is Dangerous": lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi, Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs; produced by Geneva Jacuzzi; co-produced by Roderick Edens, Andrew Briggs and Josh da Costa; additional Synth by Dylan McPherson
"Speed of Light": lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi; produced by Andrew Clinco
"Nu2U": lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi; produced by Geneva Jacuzzi; co-produced by Josh da Costa
"Dry": lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi; produced by Geneva Jacuzzi; additional production by Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs
"Scene Ballerina": lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi, Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs; produced by Geneva Jacuzzi; co-produced by Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs; modular synth by Chris Santiago
"Take It or Leave It" / "Keep It Secret" / "Rock and a Hard Place" : lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi and Roderick Edens; produced by Geneva Jacuzzi; co-produced by Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs
"Bow Tie Eater": lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi and Roderick Edens; produced by Geneva Jacuzzi; co-produced by Roderick Edens, Andrew Briggs and Chris Santiago
"Heart Full of Poison": lyrics by Geneva Jacuzzi and Roderick Edens;
produced by Geneva Jacuzzi; co-produced by Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs; saxophone by Zac Plastic
"Yo-Yo Boy": lyrics by Roderick Edens and Geneva Jacuzzi; produced by Geneva Jacuzzi, Roderick Edens and Andrew Briggs
"Medical Records" celebrates "record store day" with a generous 30% discount on everything. This label is specialized on high-quality releases in the wave/electronica genres. It's not my first purchase here - for instance, I've grabbed the fantastic album "We Are Eyes, We Are Builders" by "Soviet" here. Geneva Garvin aka Geneva Jacuzzi did almost everything on this album herself, except for contributions to the lyrics by Casey Obelisk, and additional keyboards by Alex Black on "Cannibal Babies". Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
On their 10th record, the Glasgow-based group serves up more wonderfully menacing, gothy synthpop, perfect for dungeon dancing. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 19, 2023