Body Language - Perfection
"An effervescent mix of electo-pop, R&B, blurring lines between genre...Body Language indeed creates their own musical mood swings over a virtuous mix of loops, beats and spot-on vocals."
Glide
"Ricocheting off psych-induced dance beats and Bess’ velvety vocals, “Boomerang” slinks around all its experimental harmonies"
American Songwriter
"The energetic new tune revolves around a pulsing beat and silky vocal lines alongside dreamy synths that are sure to get you dancing."
Indie88
"Swirling electronic beats create a potent sonic landscape for Angelica Bess’ slinky coos of love and adoration."
KEXP
"One thing is for certain, the album will be transportive (as with their previous releases) whether that’s moving people to dance at home on their own or travel to sunnier days in their imagination."
-Cool Hunting
"'Perfection' offers a playful and bouncy instrumental coupled with a melodic hook that's sugary sweet and undeniably catchy. The track taps into notions of a once perfect place or time, and the fleeting nature of so-called perfect moments."
-EARMILK
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Premiering on Glide, Brooklyn-based Body Language's album Travel Guide is now out everywhere on Om Records. Shimmering, infectious, and playful tracks line the 10 song album, infused with elements ranging from R&B to trance-inducing rhythms. Glide praised the band's pristine genre-melding, "combining the electronic innovations of Sudan Archives and the go-anywhere soul of Brittany Howard, the touchpoints are numerous. Body Language indeed creates their own musical mood swings over a virtuous mix of loops, beats and spot-on vocals."
Travel Guide chronicles an itinerary in route through ten tracks of genre-bent psychedelic R&B. From writing the record on both coasts to slowly spreading themselves out beyond the limits of Brooklyn, NY, distance and wayfaring seem to hold no water to their force as writers, as they triumphantly deem this record to be their most collaborative effort yet. Dodging raindrops in their own personal paradise, and then ducking catcalls on the streets of Brooklyn, Travel Guide is an escape to many scenes in the day in the life of the trio. Here’s your passport, your bag and a little sunshine in a bottle, enjoy the trip.
Brooklyn’s Body Language has always embodied something of a sensual mythos. Since their inception in 2008, the band (Angelica Bess, Grant Wheeler, Matt Young and Ian Chang)has been known for their restless pop experiments with a future-shocked blend of soul and R&B. The quartet’s debut 2010 LP Social Studies earned the approval of everyone from NPR to The New York Times to The Guardian, who compared the breakout release to early Madonna, the indie disco of Prelude Records and “CSS doing an impression of Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band.”
On their 2013 sophomore release, Grammar, Body Language dug deeper into electronic-pop territory and garnered the hit ‘Well Absolutely’ that went on to be featured in an advertising campaign for Lord & Taylor and earned multiple licenses w/ HBO, Google and LG plus noteworthy support from Sirius XM.
Their 2016 follow-up release Mythos, continued to showcase their intimate music with lyrics of longing, desire and lost love. Oftentimes dark and moody, Mythos pushed forth feelings of desire against ominous backdrops only to quickly veer back into the familiar and comforting.
LYRICS:
I wasn’t living but now I breathe
Talking under water like a fantasy
Living on a planet, call it crazy (callin’ it crazy)
I saw us through a crystal ball,
Light was shining through it all
Floating there without a sound
Though we know it’s gonna come on crashing down.
“I think that we’re the only ones”
We’re watching, watching it come
Perfection only happens once
Perfection only happens once
“I think that we’re the only ones”
You know that we already once
Perfection only happens once
Perfection only happens once
We have our differences of form and color
take a little time to love each other
Leaning on an axis, getting lazy
We’re getting so lazy
4, 3, 2, 1 then we gonna blow
When it comes we’re never gonna know, oh
Floating there without a sound
Cause you know it’s gonna come on crashing down.
I think that we’re the only ones
We’re watching, watching it come
Perfection only happens once
Perfection only happens once
I think that we’re the only ones
You know that we already won
Perfection only happens once
Perfection only happens once
Perfection only happens once
I think that we’re the only ones
We already won