| Release Date: | 092923 |
| Currently: | In stock (1) |
| Please note: | Last copy available. Going forward this title will be special order only. |
September 29 street date. "XO SKELETON" is the supple, steady, uncanny new album by La Force: a mixture of haunted pop and hot-blooded R&B that glistens at the meeting-point between life, death and love.
The finality of death? The protection that another person's love can or cannot bestow? These are body questions, matters of breath and flesh and pulse, which is the stuff at the centre of all of La Force's music, beginning on her 2018 debut and also outward, into Ariel Engle's electrifying work with Broken Social Scene, Big Red Machine, Efrim Menuck, Safia Nolin, and AroarA, her duo with her husband, Andrew Whiteman.
La Force's voice is stunning - somehow luscious and also wise - but so is her point of view - steady, sensitive, physical. "XO SKELETON" is a kind of reckoning: a coming-to-terms with the oblivion that bookends a life, but also the "gooey centre" of love, loss, touch, and memory. These nine extraordinary songs are human-scale and intimate, with chord changes like the shifting of limbs. "XO SKELETON" is electric and vivid, and also tactile and grimy. It bends and turns with its every shift of pulse - 35 mournful minutes; but also searching, turned on. Like a body, you might say. Or the memory of one.