“It makes me want to dance! How about you!?” “My little song ‘Jolene’ has been done so many different ways and I love them all, but I think this one is my favorite,” Parton says.
It’s warm, but also cold, kind of like Parton’s lover’s adoration, and an altogether sophisticated and honorable take on the 1974 hit, which is probably why the country legend deigned to give it a rare nod of official approval. And it’s that latter part that Destructo plugs into for his official remix: Smooth synth waves roll over a hard-hitting beat as Parton’s guitar picks and vocals help bring the funk. Love is BLOOD and the sacrifice is TIME, STAYING, and STANDING for the ones you say you love.” - K.R.ĭolly Parton’s classic heartbreaking plea of one woman to another to spare her feelings, without any sign of hatred or anger, makes for a desperate song - but Parton plays it with class and groove on the 1973 original. “Whether this devotion is offered to a lover, a goal, a friend, or to family. “This song is a battle cry for love, a reminder that love has teeth and fight,” Davis writes. You can hear the importance of connection in Davis’ lyrics, such as “I know you gonna have my back… we go to war, I be your soldier.” The clarity of his voice gives listeners something to hold onto amid Kingdom’s production, a jagged and heaving combination of solemn synth strings, bursts of percussion and subdued sighs. At the heart of “Love is Blood” itself is connection: it was inspired by L.A.’s Mustache Mondays party series, where Davis and Kingdom first met, and which celebrated the queer community. “Particularly with the pandemic, not knowing what was happening, what the future might look like, what might happen in the scene being able to get into the studio with no time constraints and just really pour my heart into making music really helped get me through the last year and definitely help keep my mental health in check.” - KATIE BAINīefore “Love is Blood” became Rush Davis and Kingdom’s latest single, it planted the seed for what would become their joint album Transmission (out today on Tokimonsta’s Young Art Records). “The time I had in the studio was like a therapy session,” Fitzpatrick says. Out via the venerable Anjundadeep, the album certainly bangs as hard as you’d expect it to, with the techno and d’n’b appearing throughout also layered amongst softer, more ambient tracks like album opener “Berlin Morning Calm.” “Closing In”, a collaboration with vocalist Lawrence Hart, manages to be both soft and club-ready - and make sure you listen through to the end, as album closer “Unite” samples Charlie Chaplin’s speech from the 1940 comedy The Great Dictator to inspiring, malaise-busting effect. But Fitzpatrick took his moods to the studio and transmuted them into new music, which altogether became his first album in ten years, Machine Therapy. The onset of the pandemic plunged many of us into a state of existential malaise, German producer Alan Fitzpatrick included. KRYSTAL RODRIGUEZĮven techno legends get the blues. NPC cuts through the heaviness with a breathy, hypnotic chant: “Money, power, beauty, fame / Choose your weapon to beat the game / Money is power and art is fraud / And love is just a drug from God.” The track is out via Astralwerks and Lake’s own Black Book Records.
It’s clear why fans are hooked: “Drug” is dark, severe and futuristic, with prolonged builds reaching sky-scraping heights to make the sudden drop feel all the steeper. Lake and NPC produced the song together in Los Angeles, and it’s since been making the club/festival and social media rounds since May. Who is NPC, you ask? It’s Grimes - or rather, an A.I. Chris Lake is back with his fourth single of 2021, “A Drug From God,” a collaboration with NPC.
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