Thursday 19 January 2023

Serpent feat. Lescop "Dysfunktion" : Jack live

An up-close-and-live-session performance of the song Dysfunktion by Serpent, the project fronted by Lescop.

It's a funkier proposition than his previous releases, his self-titled debut from 2012 and its 2016 follow up Écho were much darker and more electronic propositions. Needless to say, we absolutely loved them

Serpent has been a going concern since 2020, with the release of Distant Call the lead track from the Time for a Rethink EP. 

There certainly seemed to have been a bit of a rethink, although it wasn't perhaps as dramatic as it first seemed. He hadn't - as they would have said in the late '70s/early '80s - "Gone disco", just expanded his musical horizons and the post-punk flavour that was at the forefront of his earlier releases is still there. 

Just look at the song titles: Ice Age; Waiting in the Park; Love/Hate; and even Dysfunktion could all be  the names of obscure tracks from first-wave cold-wave acts, many of whom were not afraid to embrace funk, reggae and dance music. And they were all the better for it.

Dysfunktion is the title track of a six-song EP released in May last year with Don't Waste my Time emerging as a single ahead of it.

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