In 2021, YEDM did a New Artist Highlight on Portlander experimental artist Jason Wann and his conceptual mission SINES which, at the moment, was on its third multi-track launch. Via that album, referred to as A Sequence of Moments, Wann mixed all the very best bits of synth pop and gave them a contemporary twist with dabbles of feminine vox accompaniments and totally different beat constructions. Not afraid to play with future bass, techno, bass home and, in fact, classic synth pop, SINES reveals nice promise to be the following Odesza or Washed Out hybrid.
Not plenty 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 distinct mission title referred to as Blood Oyster. Nearly fully reverse in each manner 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. Sweet 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 manage girls’s our bodies, Blood Oyster is about as deliberately nasty as a 2LiveCrew or a WAP with observe names like “From the Again” and “Throbbing Onerous Penis.” As these ironic assertion EPs which might be seemingly about objectification had been being made, Wann was changing into increasingly pissed off with the best way girls are both exploited or repressed over the previous few years. This frustration culminated, because it did for thus many People, within the Supreme Court docket’s choice to overturn the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in June of 2022. Seen by many as the last word and most blatant signal that the US not solely doesn’t care about bodily autonomy for girls and folks with uteruses, this choice, made doable by the ushering in of two new far proper wing SCOTUS justices earlier than the tip 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 Planned Parenthood, made even early term abortions illegal (including in cases of rape) and a few states even made it doable for parents who went through with an abortion to be tried for murder.
With the dystopian nightmare described in Margaret Atwood’s fictional book The Handmaid’s Tale all of a 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 almost 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 go away this situation alone. Immediately a cheeky commentary on how girls are utilized in media and abused in personal become an all-out protest with Biggest Hits. Stuffed with tracks from the unique two Blood Oyster EPs plus heaps extra, the 30-track Biggest 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 all the time be owned by them.
Wann as Blood Oyster makes this assertion in essentially the most enjoyable manner doable, with loud, colourful booty bass beats, unapologetic lyrics and so many catchy tunes. Watch out; you would end up singing the Daft Punk-esque “ASS” in your head at work or laughing on the someway each sexual and creepy “Everyone Loves Raymond” at inappropriate instances. This entire “collection of bootlegs” is inappropriate, in fact, however that’s the purpose. A tapestry of impropriety woven with far more experimental music and flare than we’ve seen from Wann to this point, the album juxtaposes the pure sensual potential of ladies 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 injury completed within the title of propriety, it’s time to take a superb onerous take 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 “collection of visualizers” (who knew that album title can be such a enjoyable callback?) to go along with Biggest Hits. As a result of it’s a bootleg album, Wann has put the veritable film up on his Vimeo account totally free public viewing. Not fairly as soiled visually as it’s musically, the multimedia aspect of Biggest Hits takes the artistry of the album up just a few notches. Watch it with some good audio system on a superb TV and also you’ve mainly bought your self an at-home rave. Humorous, kitschy and stuffed with the love Wann has for girls that listeners to the album alone might not really feel, the visualizer film is unquestionably value a watch (presumably on some mind-altering substances).
Blood Oyster: The Movie! from jason wann on Vimeo.
Even should you’re into into booty bass or experimental bass or enjoyable visualizers, there’s one more reason to help Blood Oyster and the Biggest Hits album: all earnings from its buy on Bandcamp can be donated to Planned Parenthood in Amy Coney Barrett’s title. 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 daily that those that worth the lives of ladies and youngsters will proceed to struggle for his or her well being. The hyperlink for the album is here (and likewise within the video above) however we additionally encourage followers of ladyparts in every single place to take up this petty (and vital) trigger and donate to the factor SCOTUS and so many different misguided politicians are attempting to destroy. And should you don’t wish to donate, have a cheeky, attractive little rave in your front room or automotive, courtesy of Blood Oyster.
