Moving the effervescent tempos and syncopated dance impulses of her first two albums from backyard parties and rumbling car stereos into the nightclubs, Empress Of's third studio album, I'm Your Empress Of, plays at times like a DJ set, keeping the music and the body in motion. Also featuring her typically off-kilter arrangements, it was mostly self-produced (Jim-E Stack and Mikey Freedom Hart each produced a track.) She includes a spoken-word segment on the introductory title track, during which her mother reflects on ...
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Moving the effervescent tempos and syncopated dance impulses of her first two albums from backyard parties and rumbling car stereos into the nightclubs, Empress Of's third studio album, I'm Your Empress Of, plays at times like a DJ set, keeping the music and the body in motion. Also featuring her typically off-kilter arrangements, it was mostly self-produced (Jim-E Stack and Mikey Freedom Hart each produced a track.) She includes a spoken-word segment on the introductory title track, during which her mother reflects on learning English and raising a creative daughter. "I'm Your Empress Of" also features dramatic, curtain-raising keyboard progressions, funky mid-range rhythms, and resonant bass as it leads directly into the first song, "Bit of Rain." That track's bright synths, crisp electronic snare tones, and thumping bass drum accompany yearning, sexual lyrics. The album as a whole adopts a less personal tone than her prior albums while keeping things intimate, including the anthemic house entry "Love Is a Drug," which emphasizes "I know love is a drug/I know money is a drug/I know sex can be a drug, but I just want to be touched." Its four on the floor holds steady into the next song, "U Give It Up." I'm Your Empress Of continues in kind across pulsing beats, Latin rhythms, and unrepressed physical yearning all the way through the final two tracks, "Hold Me Like Water" and "Awful," which wind down tempos without stifling the album's persistent effervescence. It's Empress Of's best-sequenced work to this point, playing out like a colorful, catchy dancefloor musical about an ill-fated romance with an absent object of affection. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi
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