In 2021, YEDM did a New Artist Highlight on Portlander experimental artist Jason Wann and his conceptual challenge SINES which, at the moment, was on its third multi-track launch. By means of that album, referred to as A Sequence of Moments, Wann mixed all the most effective bits of synth pop and gave them a contemporary twist with dabbles of feminine vox accompaniments and completely different beat constructions. Not afraid to play with future bass, techno, bass home and, after all, classic synth pop, SINES exhibits nice promise to be the following Odesza or Washed Out hybrid.
Not a whole lot of followers or press, for that matter, knew that between all the stunning and celestial synth pop releases, Wann was additionally interstitially releasing below a special challenge identify referred to as Blood Oyster. Virtually fully reverse in each method from SINES, Blood Oyster is entrenched in booty bass, hip hop and lure with an emphasis on ‘booty.’ The aptly named Let Booty Unfastened that includes rapper Honey B. Candy launched in April 2021 adopted by the even dirtier Pussy Energy in October whereas Wann and SINES music companion Kitty Richardson had been engaged on A Sequence of Moments. It should have been a colossal mind toggle for Wann.
Designed as a tongue-in-cheek nose-thumbing on the patriarchy and its want to regulate girls’s our bodies, Blood Oyster is about as deliberately nasty as a 2LiveCrew or a WAP with monitor names like “From the Again” and “Throbbing Laborious Penis.” As these ironic assertion EPs which can be seemingly about objectification had been being made, Wann was turning into increasingly more annoyed with the way in which girls are both exploited or repressed over the previous few years. This frustration culminated, because it did for thus many Individuals, within the Supreme Courtroom’s choice to overturn the Roe v. Wade Supreme Courtroom choice in June of 2022. Seen by many as the final word and most blatant signal that the US not solely doesn’t care about bodily autonomy for girls and other people with uteruses, this choice, made potential by the ushering in of two new far proper wing SCOTUS justices earlier than the top of Donald Trump’s presidential has unleashed a wave of states winding again the clock to pre-1973 guidelines and laws. States banned abortion clinics and Deliberate Parenthood, made even early time period abortions unlawful (together with in circumstances of rape) and a few states even made it potential for folks who went by way of with an abortion to be tried for homicide.
With the dystopian nightmare described in Margaret Atwood’s fictional ebook The Handmaid’s Story all of the sudden turned actuality and Atwood a prophetess due to Brett Kavanaugh and particularly final Gilead Spouse Amy Coney Barrett, a great deal of artists determined to protest what has now been occurring within the US for nearly a 12 months. Together with the likes of Pussy Riot, Phoebe Bridgers, Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, Mariah Carey, Lizzo et al., Wann felt he couldn’t depart this subject alone. All of the sudden a cheeky commentary on how girls are utilized in media and abused in non-public changed into an all-out protest with Best Hits. Filled with tracks from the unique two Blood Oyster EPs plus heaps extra, the 30-track Best Hits makes a daring assertion that it doesn’t matter what type of legal guidelines are locations on them, girls’s our bodies self-worth an sexuality will at all times be owned by them.
Wann as Blood Oyster makes this assertion in probably the most enjoyable method potential, with loud, colourful booty bass beats, unapologetic lyrics and so many catchy tunes. Watch out; you could possibly end up singing the Daft Punk-esque “ASS” in your head at work or laughing on the one way or the other each sexual and creepy “Everyone Loves Raymond” at inappropriate instances. This entire “sequence of bootlegs” is inappropriate, after all, however that’s the purpose. A tapestry of impropriety woven with far more experimental music and flare than we’ve seen from Wann to date, the album juxtaposes the pure sensual potential of girls and humanity towards a few of its worst detractors so present what this oppression and management can truly do. With so lots of our idols fallen and a lot harm carried out within the identify of propriety, it’s time to take an excellent onerous have a look at rape tradition; simply ask “Dr. Huxtable.”
As if the Blood Oyster album weren’t sufficient, Wann has additionally put collectively an arty “sequence of visualizers” (who knew that album identify could be such a enjoyable callback?) to go together with Best Hits. As a result of it’s a bootleg album, Wann has put the veritable film up on his Vimeo account without spending a dime public viewing. Not fairly as soiled visually as it’s musically, the multimedia facet of Best Hits takes the artistry of the album up a number of notches. Watch it with some good audio system on an excellent TV and also you’ve principally obtained your self an at-home rave. Humorous, kitschy and filled with the love Wann has for girls that listeners to the album alone could not really feel, the visualizer film is unquestionably value a watch (probably on some mind-altering substances).
Blood Oyster: The Film! from jason wann on Vimeo.
Even in the event you’re into into booty bass or experimental bass or enjoyable visualizers, there’s another excuse to help Blood Oyster and the Best Hits album: all income from its buy on Bandcamp can be donated to Deliberate Parenthood in Amy Coney Barrett’s identify. That’s proper, within the custom of Mike Pence, Ted Cruz and different anti-uterus rights politicians, Wann has determined that Coney Barrett ought to be the following recipient of this honor to be reminded day by day that those that worth the lives of girls and youngsters will proceed to combat for his or her well being. The hyperlink for the album is right here (and in addition within the video above) however we additionally encourage followers of ladyparts in all places to take up this petty (and necessary) trigger and donate to the factor SCOTUS and so many different misguided politicians are attempting to destroy. And in the event you don’t need to donate, have a cheeky, horny little rave in your front room or automotive, courtesy of Blood Oyster.
