You wanna know how I get away with everything? I work—all the fucking time.
"You wanna know how I get away with everything? I work—all the fucking time." Ninja Tune

Marie Davidson, "Work It" (Ninja Tune)

Montreal producer/vocalist Marie Davidson's Working Class Woman has been getting a lot of hype for a techno album. Much of that traction can likely be attributed to her use of vocals, provocative lyrics and spoken-word snippets, and, last but not least, its irresistible rhythms. Working Class Woman is the rare techno album that significantly reveals its creator's personality and thoughts about matters such as capitalism, club culture, and mental health. It's also the rare techno album that deviates from the 4/4 grid from time to time—see especially the wonderfully disruptive and splenetic "Workaholic Paranoid Bitch."

The tough, snide attitude to Davidson's vocals on the key track "Work It" remind me of some of Miss Kittin's output, although the music here possesses more gravitas—an almost Teutonic/industrial sternness à la DAF, but it also somehow bears a swaggering electro wiggle in its peculiar percussion matrix. There's a lot of interesting, intricate sound design happening beneath Davidson's motivational declarations about labor and self-care. As you're trying to discern whether she's sincere or satirical, you're marveling at the complexity and rigor of this odd club anthem.