(T)it’s Up
And it came to pass in those fretful days of mediocre dance music, that a glorious note of electronic fervor rang in the streets of Portland, Oregon. The immaculate conception of Spesus Christ, heralded by many a house show, had come. Shepherds and traveling kids alike beheld a star above, soon realizing it was a strobe light, and danced. Wise men and hipsters made a pilgrimage from the east, bearing frankincense, gold, myrrh, and synthesizers. Unrelentingly fresh beats crashed down from the heavens in a thunderous and holy stampede, and Spesus Christ came to be.
Spesus Christ is the hip-hop-dance-pop brainchild of the musically incestuous Cameron Spies (find his fingerprints all over many projects on Apes Tapes). Forming in July of 2009, the unbreakable alliance of Spies and the ever-lovely Elizabeth Ellison continually proves to be a wellspring of eclectically balanced tunes.
As the loving volumes of Spesusdom have sparked over the years, they’ve grown out of their somber yet meaningfully erratic sounds of yesteralbums in exchange for a gallivanting romp of pop echoes and hip-hop overtones. While still maintaining the anchor of eccentric and half-cynical-half-silly lyrical themes that effuse from the daring and danceable sing-talk of Cameron Spies, Elizabeth Ellison’s eerily captivating siren call doesn’t quite hide, rounding out the sonically tangible realm of each Spesussong. From their first releases (EP1, EP2) to their latest tidbits featured on the Apes Tapes Mixed Ape compilations, the holy words of Spesus Christ are wholly worth their weight in tangled ribbon.
