Album Review: St Vincent - Nina Kraviz Presents... Masseduction Rewired

Remember when CD singles were a thing? When they delivered more than an A and a B side, they became a treasure trove of remixes that all too often took the source material on crazy tangents sounding nothing like the original. St Vincent gets herself plenty of remix action by giving Russian DJ, Nina Kraviz, the keys to the Masseduction car. Not content with a test-drive, Kraviz takes the album on a monster roadtrip, coming back with no less than 21 remixes that reimagine St Vincent’s indie-pop into bumping techno, house and acid. 

Kraviz has worked with a huge array of producers to pull this release together, but giving herself the opportunity to produce three of these remixes notably gives us the ghostly rave of her ‘Gabber Me Gently’ remix of Slow Disco. A selection of artists, such as Buttechno and PTU, releasing on Kraviz’s трип (pronounced trip) label get in on the action with beats designed to work the floor. It's acts like Pearson Sound, Mala and Hieroglyphic Being who produce some of the best remixes here, digging deep into the indie-pop source material to express the emotions of these songs in an abstract and impressionistic electronic soundscape. This is Masseduction as it might have been released in an alternative universe.