Live Review: Tove Lo 'Talking Body' (Jax Jones Remix)

JAX JONES (born Timucin Fabian Kwong Wah Aluo) is much more than that Duke Dumont track, his co-produced summer smash ‘I got U’.

He’s recently been playing a run of shows with Eton Messy round the UK, but found time to squeeze out a tasty little remix of Stockholm’s most angelic export to date, Tove Lo, injecting a funky house bassline to her track ‘Talking Body’.

Tove Lo isn't to be mistaken for being totally innocent though, and her lyrics are what make her stand out amongst the array of sultry and electronic minded female singers at the moment. Jax Jones does well to keep Tove Lo’s distinctive vocals as the focus of the track, and it’s not in every house remix that you get an insightful and consumerist commentary on the commodity fetishism of the body in our millennial age, is it? ("Our baby making bodies we just use for fun…let's use them up till every little piece is gone").

The layering of her voice and cutting up of the chorus are a staple of Jax Jones’ style, and certainly brings an upper to the original. It’s more glitchy and frenetic but retains a strong vocal performance from the original sample, which means that Jones’ remix lands slap bang at the intersection between radio friendly dance track and club favourite.

Words by Katie Rowley

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