Radiating a neon glow even before one’s pupils is set on it’s vibrantly-colored video clip, Idle Warship‘s “Bedroom Lites”, a highlight from their new mixtape Party Robot and the first single from their forthcoming debut album, sees the undie-supergroup aligning themselves with modern music’s over-obsession with everything ’80′s as they utilize a boxy, synth-lit electro strut to support a tale of two friends lusting after eachother in the late-night.
Res and Graph Nobel breathlessly purr their way across the tense erotic throb of “Bedroom”‘s Eurthymics/ Paisley Park-ian soundscape, convincing in their shared role of a woman on the verge of implosion as she anticipates the rings of a booty call (“The lion’s outside of the cage/ And, oh boy, I need petting, dear”; “My head is on a pillow/ And it’s getting lonely in my habitat”); Meanwhile, on the other side of town, an equally horny Talib is torn over whether or not he should even phone (“I don’t want my interest to be taken for a sex fetish”).
Will the hook-up ever happen? Despite all the heated panting on display throughout, it sounds like it won’t; but that’s okay, the chorus’ semi-somber resignation of “Turn off the bedroom lights/ I guess I’ll be alone tonight” nodding towards an “it’s probably all for the better” resolution while simultaneously indicating that some “solo” fun will have to be had as a substitute.
The never-ending reports concerning our current nightmare of an economy got you down this holiday season? Well, here’s something that might lift those spirits a bit. After spending most of the year watering the mouths of music fans with a handful of individual cuts and accompanying live dates, Idle Warship, the alt-urban side-project featuring Talib Kweli, Res and, now, Canadian singer/ rapper Graph Nobel, have plans to drop a mixtape set sometime soon.
The first taste off that project is “Steady”, a “fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be” cautionary built on a Paisley Park hand-clap shuffle and the still-spine-tingling synth-paranoia of 80′s New Wave staple “Sunglasses At Night”. Pulling back the curtains behind the paparazzo flashes and big buck bank accounts, Idle reveal a far less glitzy wasteland filled with the trampled-on and soul-sapped. “I didn’t know the game/ I just knew I could play/ You build me up like a team/ I represented the dream,” Res reflects on her naive industry beginnings, but after veering thisclose to losing herself while in dogged pursuit of the glamorous life, she quickly revamps her life plan: “I got to fight for my name/…No more doin’ what you say”.
In addition, there’s the haunting distant cries of “Murder”, a half-singing Talib inquiring “Is it the sex or the drugs?/ Which poison you choose?” and Graph running down a mocking list of random celeb-isms while shouting out her crew and declaring, “Yeah I said it, I’m avant-garde!!”.
Another stand-out creation from this increasingly on-fire trio.
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Radiating a neon glow even before one’s pupils is set on it’s vibrantly-colored video clip, Idle Warship‘s “Bedroom Lites”, a highlight from their new mixtape Party Robot and the first single from their forthcoming debut album, sees the undie-supergroup aligning themselves with modern music’s over-obsession with everything ’80′s as they utilize a boxy, synth-lit electro strut to support a tale of two friends lusting after eachother in the late-night.
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