Sacred & Profane Love

VINYL FORMAT. Producer and chanteuse (and fashion icon and social satirist and heartbreaker) Maria Minerva is the groove-gift that keeps on shimmy-givin.' Her forth effort this year—after the wildly weird, how-low-fi-can-you-cry "Tallinn At Dawn," the boy-you-turn-me upside down disco EP Noble Savage, and the salty sweet gauze-ahh strip tease "Cabaret Cixous"—comes just in time for Santa, baby. Sacred and Profane Love wraps it up with a bow: drugged-out drag choruses, saucy pans, lines of echo-coke, head-trippy candy flips, layered bangs, crooked hooks, top forty flirting, pop weaseling, sand dune sparkle, dream reels. With a wily wink Minerva serves allusions to the other gay nineties, reminding one of a 'Post'-era Bjork or a Sampladelic Lady Miss Kier or a Deeper and Deeper Madonna. Sensual in every sense of the word. Maria Minerva just turned it up, so you better bring your M game. Spiced with special guest remix-er ITAL's flamboyant he-gives-me-fever flavor on "Luv So Strong."