Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color 2LP NEW LTD ED COLORED VINYL W- MP3 For Discount

Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color 2LP

NEW. SEALED.

Remastered double LP blue vinyl limited edition, includes mp3 download of album.

#2228 4000.

Light in the Attic Records

Lizzy Mercier Descloux made a significant splash in New York s underground music community with her first solo album for the ZE label, home to equally bent acts like Was (Not Was), Cristina, the Contortions, and Kid Creole & the Coconuts. The French transplant had already established herself as one half of Rosa Yemen, a short-lived no wave combo that released a hastily recorded six-song EP for the same label a year earlier. Along with Rosa Yemen partner DJ Barnes and Garçons Eric Elliason, she recorded Press Color — eight tense, terse tunes owing more to disco, funk, and film scores than punk rock — within the span of two weeks. The lead single, a cover of Arthur Brown s Fire, couldn t have ripped out Descloux s no wave roots any more violently, all the while changing the original s fire-and-brimstone theatrics into a zippy roller-rink wink. Covers of two Lalo Schifrin compositions — Mission: Impossible and Jim on the Move — are relatively faithful, though Descloux adds something of her own to the latter by repeatedly intoning the title ( Jim…Jim! Jim, Jim, Jim — on…the move ). The original arrangement of the standard Fever is also kept intact, but Descloux replaces every instance of fever with tumor ( you give me tumor, tumor when you hold me tight, etc.). The other half of the album is made up of originals, including Wawa, a bobbing, disco-inspired instrumental full of the spindly guitars that would populate much of her brilliant follow-up, Mambo Nassau. Spirited, fun, and full of luscious basslines, the only thing that prevents Press Color from being as venerated as ESG s early releases is that no rap producer has been keen enough to sample from it.