Dirty Freud – Prints (2024)
Originally formed as the solo project of Danni Skerrit (electronics, production and vocals), Dirty Freud made waves as a solo artist; but that’s not where it stopped. Joined by Ruby Tingle (vocals), Jonno Allen (saxophone) and Rob Andrews (guitar), the now foursome is making more waves far beyond their UK borders. Live audiences are won with their confident touring and performances at festivals like Glastonbury; global audiences are won with internet streaming of critically acclaimed melodies. The latest addition to their discography is the single ‘Prints’.
Following the well-received ‘I’m So Fly’, ‘Prints’ is another step toward their debut full-length album to be released in 2025. With an innovative flair, Dirty Freud demonstrates their eclectic nature by moving from the electropop-filled ‘I’m So Fly’ to a smoother jazz-flecked dub sound in ‘Prints’. Interestingly, as diverse as the two tracks may be, there is a strong similarity highlighting Dirty Freud’s distinctiveness. Glitchy with electronic beats, both are a bit “all over the place”; however, ‘Prints’ is wrapped by a sassier, sexier, smooth lace of jazzy saxophone.
Shimmering with strong avant-garde sentimentality, ‘Prints’ is unlike anything I’ve heard for a while. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever come across something like Dirty Freud. In the distorted bounce of electronic beats, there is a strange sense of soothing peeking from its core (particularly with the intoxicating sax). I could describe ‘Prints’ as a song for the club’s dancefloor, and it’s true there is that blissful haze of a rave slicing through the track, BUT the acid jazz veil gives ‘Prints’ far more leaning toward the end of the party when everyone’s laying back in a breath-taking daze.
The melody itself is outstanding drawing together lines of simplicity and complexity in its intricate composition. Simplistic in that it heads straight to the heart of human vulnerability, complex in its weaving through our core with electro-jazz tentacles. Danni Skerrit explains that ‘Prints’ “…is all about the things we leave behind…” – a message so clearly expressed as it slithers through darkness, brightness and humanity in totality.
Embracing and pioneering the evolution of jazz music with experimental concoctions of electronic, pop and soul wrapped in their jazz sound, Dirty Freud is far from conventional. I cannot wait for their upcoming album.
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