Teaches Of Peaches, The

Magnet - "...It's a hypnotic combination: the words, the beats, the bass..." The Wire - "...Dirty talk over clunky electro beats with graceless, simple analog melodies and the occasional punk guitar....She turns the macho sexual predator versus female recipient/victim structure on its head...not without humor..." CMJ - "...It's not sexy, just sex. And therein lies the appeal..." Muzik - 4 out of 5 - "...High grade, lo-fi electronic sleaze, like Suicide fronted by Missy Elliot..." Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Surreally funny, nasty and funky....Her cheap beatbox rhythms are old-school simple, her synths recall Suicide...and her rapping sounds like an alternate-universe Lil'Kim..." Uncut - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Peaches raps, screams and squeals her way through a catalogue of sleaze-funk, c***-rock and electro-punk with the weapon of her sexuality thrust close-up in the listener's face..." Rolling Stone (3/29/01, p.62) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Surreally funny, nasty and funky....Her cheap beatbox rhythms are old-school simple, her synths recall Suicide...and her rapping sounds like an alternate-universe Lil'Kim..." Uncut (10/00, p.86) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Peaches raps, screams and squeals her way through a catalogue of sleaze-funk, c***-rock and electro-punk with the weapon of her sexuality thrust close-up in the listener's face..." Muzik (10/00, p.74) - 4 out of 5 - "...High grade, lo-fi electronic sleaze, like Suicide fronted by Missy Elliot..." The Wire (1/01, p.70) - "...Dirty talk over clunky electro beats with graceless, simple analog melodies and the occasional punk guitar....She turns the macho sexual predator versus female recipient/victim structure on its head...not without humor..." Magnet (4-5/01, p.85) - "...It's a hypnotic combination: the words, the beats, the bass..." CMJ (3/12/01, p.14) - "...It's not sexy, just sex. And therein lies the appeal..."

Peaches, a Canadian expatriate residing in Germany, rocks and shocks by mixing electronic music, punk, and femme fatale attitude. Her second solo release and first full- length album from German label Kitty-Yo, TEACHES OF PEACHES does not hide its overt sexuality. Sporting the artist's midsection on the cover, replete with a pair of pink hot pants, the album seems to posit the next wave of feminist music.
With songs such as "Lovertits", "Suck and Let Go", and "Cum Undun", Peaches aligns herself with outspoken artists like The Slits and Kathleen Hanna. Obvious parallels to equally electronic act Le Tigre come to mind while listening to Peaches's rap vocals over Roland 505 beats and samples. She even whips out a guitar for songs like "Rock Show" and "Sucker". Her instrument of fancy is decidedly the Groovebox, so TEACHES OF PEACHES swells with chunky beats and rock melodies, reminiscent of the electro artists of the 1980s.|