JANE WEAVER GETS JOYFUL WITH
She aimed to write her way to happiness with “immediate, song-based” work.
Jane Weaver wanted to create something different with her new album Flock, which arrives on March 5 via Fire Records. “I love conceptual albums and 10-minute freakouts, but I wanted to do something more immediate and song-based,” she says. “My approach was a bit different – it was about creating something that’s pop and has hooks and riffs, but has an oddness to it.”
The artist light-heartedly describes the result as her own motivational record, explaining: “I wanted to do something joyful, unifying, that would work well live, given the chance. Like many people, I’ve been fed up with so many things in the past few years. I wanted to write my way out of the funk I was in and feel happy.”
Weaver adds that Flock embraces “girl group moments, spiritual jazz and hip-hop” and that lead track The Revolution Of Super Visions isn’t entirely representative of the material. “It’s probably one of the odder songs on the record,” she explains. “The idea for this song is based around toxic masculinity – the subject matter is a universal problem that effects everyone.”
In the video, she’s seen attending an art gallery event where all the guests but one are female, and they’ve set a trap for the misogynistic sole male attendee. He falls victim to a concerted psychic attack from the women.
“I sometimes despair,” Weaver says, “because the solution to equality is taking too long. So fantasising about mystical ideas might be our only resolve… Who knows?!”
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