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title: "“Up Her Dosage” (the 2006-07-14 Friday Fetch-it)" date: 2006-07-15 00:38 series: the Friday Fetch-it

tags: Colourbox, Gigi Edgley, Just Give 'em Whiskey, Poison

<p><a title="Gigi Edgley – Poison" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Gigi+Edgley/_/Poison">Poison</a> conjures up an image of a stark, white room in a futuristic hospital; in which, on a white cuboid table, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Gigi+Edgley">Gigi Edgley</a> reclines and is inspected as alien by the bespectacled, plummy-voiced retro-sci-fi staff, much to her amusement.</p>
<p>The first minute is dominated by this staff's mostly-impenetrable dialogue, textured with Gigi's breaths and the throbbing hums of background machinery. This use of quaint spoken voice samples is quite reminiscent of <a title="Colourbox – Just Give 'em Whiskey" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Colourbox/_/Just+Give+%27em+Whiskey">Just Give 'em Whiskey</a>.</p>
<p>After a minute this gives way to the actual song; its backbone is an almost ambient, liquid combination of hi-hat, synth, bass, a funk-infused pseudo-guitar line, some eerie whistling, and miscellaneous blips, whirs, breaths and distortion, all of which wouldn't sound out of place in The X-Files.</p>
<p>Gigi's vocals are breathy and sensual; their layering is æthereal and eludes to a fantastical dislocation from reality, with an accompanying inquisitiveness. The instrumentation – especially the mutedness of the grunge-guitar towards the end – reinforces this.</p>
<p>By the time the voices re-emerge four minutes in, the whole thing is sounding very much like a drug-induced altered state of conciousness, and eventually descends into catatonic incoherence.</p>
<p>Yeah, her out of Farscape. <strong>If you download one track this week, make it <a href="http://gkn.me.uk/thefridayfetchit/20060714.mp3">Poison</a>.</strong> Stay tuned.</p>