Premiere: Jack Tracy hypnotizes with sticky club fantasy with ‘Love Yah’
The indie-pop newcomer longs for the dance club in a post-pandemic world.
Queer haven is drag shows and dancing the night away in some downtown club. The rush of gettig lost in a sea of bodies, ebbing and flowing to the thumping bass of the music, is unlike anything else. Indie-pop newcomer Jack Tracy stages an epic fantasy with his brand new single, “Love Yah,” as he gazes into a post-pandemic world. “Oh, I been locked / And I’m feeling a little naughty,” he uncages right from the outset. Production runs thick and grimey, perfectly capturing Tracy’s wild urges to hit the club floor again ⏤ his reedy timbre tangles itself in viney textures to give it a rough-cut urgency.
“What I been up to? I been working on the body / And it’s just begging to be seen,” he sings, trippy percussion prancing around him. “And it’s surprising ’cause I’m such a homebody….”
“Love Yah” erupts as your typical “infectious R&B earworm,” as Tracy describes to B-Sides & Badlands over email, wrapped up as an “ode to post-quarantine club-hopping.” As “thirsty” for the club he might be, he’s very much taken by his partner, with whom he’s “been locked away with” since the pandemic began last March.
“Love Yah” anchors Tracy’s forthcoming EP, expected in the spring.
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