Album review: Planningtorock's All Love's Legal
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[Grade: B-] Planningtorock's All Love's Legal offers a somewhat cuddlier spin on an outspoken radical feminist agenda.
Planningtorock | B-
Although it shares an outspoken radical feminist agenda, sonic adventurousness and eye-popping color scheme with The Knife’s incendiary Shaking the Habitual, Planningtorock’s All Love’s Legal (Human Level) offers a somewhat cuddlier spin. It’s hard, for instance, to imagine the Dreijer siblings cooing “love is a warm gift that gives life its purpose,” as Jam Rostron does on the Sade-meets-Arthur Russell title cut. Meanwhile the catchphrase “Let’s Talk About Gender, Baby” becomes, in Rostron’s hands, a strutting, Grace Jones-style disco mantra.
