‘Flock’ is the record that Jane Weaver always wanted to make, the most
genuine version of herself, complete with unpretentious Day-Glo pop
sensibilities, wit, kindness, humour and glamour. A consciously positive vision
for negative times, a brooding and ethereal creation.
The album features an untested new fusion of seemingly unrelated compounds fused
into an eco-friendly hum; pop music for post-new-normal times. Created from
elements that should never date, its pop music reinvented. Still prevalent are
the cosmic sounds, but ‘Flock’ is a natural rebellion to the recent releases
which sees her decidedly move away from conceptual roots in favour of writing
pop music. Produced on a complicated diet of bygone Lebanese torch songs,
1980's Russian Aerobics records and Australian Punk.
Amongst this broadcast of glistening sounds is ‘The Revolution Of Super
Visions’, an untelevised Mothership connection, with Prince floating by as he
plays scratchy guitar; it also features a funky whack-a-mole bass line and synth
worms. It underlines the discordant pop vibe that permeates ‘Flock’ and
concludes on ‘Solarised’, a super-catchy, totally infectious apocalypse, a
radio-friendly groove for last dance lovers clinging together in an effort to
save themselves before the end of the night.
The musician’s exposure to an abundance of lost records served as a
reminder that you still feel like an outsider in this world and that by
overcoming fears you can achieve artistic freedom. Jane Weaver continues to
metamorphise…
“A mind-expanding delight, devoid of retro posturing.” –
The Guardian
“Ominous and luminous, expansively spacious and sonically imploding,
scientific, ephemeral and eternal” – The Quietus