Perversion For Profit [CD]

Dagger Polyester - Perversion For Profit [CD]

Pull back the red velvet curtain of the Los Angeles underground scene and centerstage you will find Dagger Polyester. Their daring mash up of punk, glam, and art rock paves the way for a new wave of rock music that defies any effort of categorization. The result is a sound that is not bogged down by gimmicks and cliches - a subversive authenticity that finds harmony in the contradictions and is reflective of Dagger's own journey in their gender transition. Dagger's music is inspired by the peculiar, the theatrical, and the unconventional. Influenced by everything from Roxy Music to Kenneth Anger, their songwriting investigates the thematic tension between performative masculinity and queerness. This seeming clash in subject matter is unified in their art by being a vessel for sharp, but playful satire. For Dagger, you can point at a problem and scream at it or you can dance with it until it gets dizzy and falls on its head. Foxes Magazine has described Dagger's sound as "far from retrospective - [where] grand, sweeping melodies contrast with... rapid, attention-deficit-genre-switching render[ing] the music futuristic and beguiling... no genre is left unadulterated. Kids just can't sit still anymore and Dagger is no exception.