Os Adult Jazz estão de volta. Dois anos depois do magnífico Gist Is, os britânicos de Leeds apresentam Earrings Off!, segundo álbum que elege a dialéctica corpo/sociedade como tema aglutinador das suas canções. O menos que se pode dizer do primeiro tema divulgado, Eggshell, é que a sua liberdade poética volta a enraizar-se num gosto experimental que será jazzístico, pelo menos, no espírito — o teledisco, austero e magnífico, tem realização de Sam Travis.
I stuff my courage with a sock
I stuff my courage and I know what's going on
And now the language is stuck
Maybe the language doesn't know what's going on
I shrug my luggage off
I shrug my luggage and be painless in a month
I will be holy and bold
Without a handle, as a doll with only a bump
And my body cases lead smoke
Like an eggshell full of black wool
I stuffed my courage, strutted foxy like a fox
And if the body is a rock
Rock body tell me what I'm not
I mark a circle on the floor
I take a breath, and then a toothbrush to my core
And it's a sacred fight
I mist the mirror and it tells me that I'm right
And my body cases lead smoke
Like an eggshell full of black wool
A boy with a bow or a girl without one
A boy with a bow or a girl without one
Is easier said than done
I'm pacing up the edge of my room
Half-proud
Compulsory, essential song
Each line
I sing along, I know that it's wrong
Even now
I still feel fear
Feel caked in wrong
It's in the bell curve
I lick along
And get moral feelings
We'll feast on moths
With salted wings
We'll drink the blood of anything
So let's talk
Creature to creature