Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears has been busy! From working with Kylie in the studio to hanging with Annie Mac in Miami… he’s a man about the disco for sure. So it’s no surprise that his band’s new album sounds like a return to the scene of the dance floor crime. The lead single, “Invisible Light,” is streaming today only on scissorsisters.com and the new album, Night Work, comes out in June. On “Light,” we hear Shears singing first in a soft baritone before a chorus of that trademark falsetto rushes in. The song is a techno disco expanse before a spoken word riff about “sexual gladiators” that ushers in a breakdown that would make Danny Tenaglia cry.
The cover art itself is the band’s biggest bid for the disco yet. The photo, by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, is from a 1977 shoot by the photographer for After Dark magazine. A young dancer named Peter Reed serves as the subject. That said, it looks like the Sisters have had the image shopped to add another hand. The only version I found has a lone hand on the dancer’s back. Either way, the reference to original disco-era clubbing through an image by one of the era’s icons is a creative way for the band to give a nod to its heritage.
the original image from After Dark magazine:
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