THE IRREPRESSIBLES fourth album ‘Yo Homo – ‘sexy, dancy, witty and occasionally queer-political – was released on 27 September.
The Irrepressibles is the creative guise of composer, vocalist, and producer Jamie Irrepressible. Jamie Irrepressible has never, for a second, shied away from making sexuality the storyboard of his vision, from ‘Two Men In Love’ to ‘The Most Beautiful Boy’. But his new album, simply and boldly titled Yo Homo!, is the most direct, and the most sexual, Irrepressibles record yet; a thrilling, celebratory, uninhibited, and steamy rush of lust and love, honesty and community.
Jamie: “I wanted to make a record specifically for the queer community, to create a safe space where people feel they are being expressed. To contribute something to that soundtrack of our lives, both in the music and the videos. With my earlier songs, like ‘In This Shirt’, I focussed on beauty, to inspire a sense of connection and compassion to homosexual love with the work, in the wider world, but this is very much about expressing the homosexual experience. I believe it’s important that music should be authentic.“
Composed and produced by Jamie, Yo Homo! is equally the most sinewy and visceral Irrepressibles record yet, the first to embrace the energy and of Jamie’s indie-rock roots. It’s a unique, spacious and slow burning blend, infused and alchemised with the exquisite melody and beauty of preceding Jamie Irrepressible’s records, including the gilding presence of strings.
Yo Homo! unfurls 11 tracks, both lavish and taut, crowned by Jamie’s gorgeously deep voice, tough and swooning, naturally vibrato and capable of falsetto flight.
Tickets for The Wardrobe here.
TOUR DATES
05/10/24 Leeds, The Wardrobe
06/10/24 London 100 Club
08/10/24 – The Black Box, BELFAST
09/10/24 Edinburgh Mash House
10/10/24 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
11/10/24 – Oxford, upstairs O2
15/10/24 – Brighton The Old Market
17/10/24 – Berlin, Germany – GRETCHEN CLUB
19 /10/24 – Tblisi, Georgia – Mono Hall
