Interesting. Berlin born Albertine Sarges ushers in her debut album Sticky Fingers, (a couple of weeks old, so still relatively hot off the press), with a carefree but disciplined workout number called Free Today that immediately drew me in.
The album builds and blossoms and explodes into light from here.This record is as good an argument as I can see for an immediate UK U Turn and Britain returning to Europe's loving bosom pronto. Sticky Fingers is sticky, sexy, vibrant, inventive and diverse. Sparky poppy but leftfield explorations of mood, tempo, impulse and emotion.
Sarges is consistently at the heart of proceedings, with a voice that swoops and swerves with remarkable elasticity. For one there's no need to play 'spot the influence.' This is a record and a singer and ensemble that are clearly happy in their own skins.
Sarges apparently has pinched her first name from Viv of the Slits, as good a starting point as any. That band put out a song called Shoplifting after all and it was apparently a regular extra-curricular pastime of theirs. There's only minor larceny of any kind going on. Sarges and her cohorts have their very own bags of tricks.
Sarges switched from English to German and is equally comfortable in both. One of the the most inventive and original albums I've heard this year. Post Post Punk and about time too. Sarges and Co. give eight good reasons why it's not always necessary to stick to the script and sometimes it's better to tear it up and start again from scratch. Infinity and beyond.
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