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Impeach My Bush

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Peaches

 
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  • We Say...

    Review by Elisabeth Vincentelli

    On her third album, Peaches flips the finger to the hatas who once derided her as a flash in the pan. Not only is she still here, but her popularity hasn’t flagged and she’s managed to stick to her sound while smartly expanding it. While her debut, 2000’s The Teaches of Peaches, was a one-woman masterpiece of minimal electro and maximal attitude, Impeach My Bush refines the evolution started on 2003’s Fatherfucker , thanks in no small part to a bigger sound imparted by co-producers Mickey Petralia and Greg Kurstin: basically, more live instruments and more classic-rock riffage injected into the classic Peaches blueprint. Guests this time around include Joan Jett (on the Bikini Kill–esque “You Love It”), the Gossip’s powerhouse singer Beth Ditto (on the turning-the-table anthem “Two Guys for Every Girl”) Feist and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme (on the gloriously punky “Give ’er,” which suddenly sprouts a metal riff halfway through) and powerhouse drummer Samantha Maloney on a handful of tracks. The album feels coherent throughout because Peaches has one of the strongest personalities this tired business we call rock has manage to cough up in the past decade. Peaches’ stock in trade remains issues of gender and sexuality, presented with (often hilarious) profane frankness, but her sense of humor and generous outlook prevent her from being preachy. Whether you like her or not, there’s no denying she’s a sui generis phenomenon.

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    Review by Heather Phares, All Music Guide

    On Peaches' last album, the intermittently tired- and inspired-sounding Fatherfucker, she sounded almost weary of singing about sex -- a pretty dangerous place for her to be, considering that it's her main source of inspiration. Fortunately, though, Impeach My Bush shakes that not-so-fresh feeling. Even though the album's sound sticks to the glam, punk, and electro foundations of her music, and the lyrics stick to the territory she knows best, Impeach My Bush is the sassiest and most engaged Merrill Nisker has sounded since The Teaches of Peaches. This is also most eclectic-sounding set of songs yet. Co-producers Mickey Petralia, who also made Ladytron's Witching Hour a fascinating (and totally different) sounding album, and Greg Kurstin, who has also sculpted beats for Gwen Stefani and Lily Allen, give Impeach My Bush a bigger, slicker sound than Peaches' previous work, but that helps her cover musical territory that ranges from the heavy-breathing glam/disco fusion of "Boys Wanna Be Her" to "Downtown," a breathy, almost coy confection that glides along on synth strings and sounds sexy as well as sexual -- a Peaches first. Of course, the album also has plenty of room for several different flavors of electro, be it buzzy ("Get It"), sleek ("Tent in Your Pants"), or just plain filthy ("Slippery Dick"). And while Impeach My Bush doesn't rock as hard as Fatherfucker, it rocks smarter: "You Love It" plays like a sexed-up, gender-swapped update of "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" and is taken to the next level by Joan Jett's vocals and guitars, while "Give 'Er" boasts handclaps that could be face-slaps and backing vocals that sound like taunting battle cries. Even though Impeach My Bush's stylishly hyperactive sound is the most immediately enticing thing about the album, Peaches' inimitable lyrics make themselves known soon enough, particularly on "Rock the Shocker," where she admonishes a guy to "stop relying on your dick" and on "Two Guys for Every Girl" (which includes backing vocals by the Gossip's Beth Ditto), which name-checks Heidi Fleiss. Spilling over with dominatrix anthems in the making, Impeach My Bush shows that despite the album's not-so-thinly-veiled jab at the Commander in Chief -- and the sequined burkha Nisker wears on its cover -- Peaches is still a force to be reckoned with in the arena of sexual politics. Even if it's not as traffic-stopping as her debut, this album suggests that she can keep her music interesting for the long haul.

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