Lizzy Mercier Descloux has a cute-worth-picking-up debut album called Press Color on ZE records. Ms. L.M.D's brand of fake adventure has nothing to do with post-jazz; it's post-rock, sounding like a hot-cool dance dand with bubblegum-hit-potential ans a certain dept to theContortions. I like very much the two Lalo Schifrin compositions here : a faithfull-in-modern fashion rendition of Mission Impossible, a great dance number, a great mix, and Jim on the move, which features very nice, nimble guitar picking with and against the classic progressive melodic notions of the song. Aya mood 3.5 is an intriguing slow-funk workout with chineses and contorted tendencies, Torso corso is funny stunded jungle stumble funk-moronic, but cute-maybe a carton of what Dietrich called "The Foreign legion of women". There's anotherhip stomp Wawa with sounds like Lizzy & the Blacks. No golden throat is a great contorted Dixieland-skank-fusion-island drugstore club with funny frog-scat vocal. Last but almost most, is a very dominant, instructive and charming full disco treatment of Arthur Brown's classic, Fire. I'ts even got a disco inferno mix by Savarese and it's overthy hot.
Glenn O'Brien : Andy Wharol's Interview : March 1980