"Merrill Garbus and a shot at the title 'weirdest record of the year", Muziekweb wrote in 2014 about the third album by tUnE-yArDs. With that in mind, sequel I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life starts off fairly normally. With a little imagination you could call the first quartet of songs modern blue eyed soul. But from Honesty onwards, the American duo - in addition to multi-instrumentalist
… Garbus consisting of bassist Nate Brenner - goes old-fashioned again. From early 90s dance ( , anyone?) and electro to the quite authentic-sounding African music of Private Life and Free. All the funnier the observation in Colonizer that 'I use my white woman's voice to tell stories of travels with African men'. Another weirdest record of the year candidate? That will have to prove. But if the "Godmother of the freak folk," then Merrill Garbus is at least the Godmother of the freaksoul. (RME)more
