On your own terms.
“Independence” is a very powerful word with different connotations, depending on the context. Without getting into political issues, it is the act of detachment for the adoption of a new freedom or even a reinvention of identity. Teresa Suarez Cosiounder the stage name of Teri Gender Benderdecided to take all the elements of his past lives, both in Le Bucherettes as in Bosnian Rainbows and all the other projects where he has gone through, to take matters into his own hands and make a work entirely of his own, not as if it were the summit of everything, but as the beginning of something new and exciting.
TGB It is ferocity, it is uncertainty, it is defeat, it is comedy, tragedy and passion. Thus, the singer-songwriter spins songs that appeal more to emotions than narratives in her native language for greater emotional nudity. He asks for a sentimental truce from a dissatisfied lover “YOU ARE NEVER HAPPY”; try to mediate between sanity and desire with “PSYCHOTIC CHAMELEON” and finally admits defeat in the face of bad decisions in “AMBITIONS”but not everything is about letting go of the baggage of the heart. Terri It also condemns human treatment of nature with “REVENGE OF THE SUN” and even the bad generational doctrines that imprison us with “THE POISON”. His list is long, and he is not afraid to hurt in the attempt.
Sonically, Terri still uses the resources and influences of riot grrl that characterized much of his early work, but now he shows his voice under a digital blanket of effects that further highlight the vulnerability in his lyrics. The great guitars and drums take the back seat to let the synths and samplers lead the journey. Even though we have heard influencers of Siouxsie Sioux, Björk either Karen Onow we can hear echoes of Kate Bush, Julia Holter, Tune-Yards and even of The Kniferesulting in a range of fascinating sounds. Even your cover rogue and sui generis from the classic Jeannette, “WHY ARE YOU LEAVING?” it doesn't feel out of place and embraces these experimental notions to give it a new pulse.
Even though the term “independence” fits very well to Teri Gender Bender to now take the reins completely and make her most personal work—a sonically charming album from start to finish—she is still a prisoner, like many of us, of the way of doing what they call “love.” But great artistic works have taken this aspect of the human condition as inspiration, and if TGB It is a first taste of this, it has a formidable and promising path to follow on its own, without help from anyone.
