Pitchfork

You could call Dani Siciliano the Missy Elliott to Matthew Herbert's Timbaland, and she's following up her contributions to Herbert's Scale, the most recent release to receive our Best New Music designation, with her second solo full-length.

Slappers, Siciliano's follow-up to 2004's Likes..., will be released September 19 on !K7. According to a press release, the album "isn't a techno record or a dance record. Slappers is comparable to a singer-songwriter record written on the strings of a guitar, but like innovators before her, Dani prefers the 0s and 1s of electronics to balance out her voice and give the album a singular feel... Dani did much of the production herself, but... Herbert shared some of the production duties."

Other contributions include the beat-boxing of Neil Thomas, drummer Leo Taylor playing a Siciliano-constructed kit made of promise rings (the metal kind, not the emo kind), and singing from Ingrid and Kitty of "cult teen band Kitty, Daisy and Lewis" on lead single "Why Can't I Make You High?". The 7" single of the song will be released June 27 and will include the B-side "Whose Blues"." In a that's-so-Herbert move, the track features what is presumably the source of the album's title, "the percussive sound of asses being slapped."

Get ur freak on:

01 Slappers
02 Didn't Anybody Tell You
03 They Can Wait
04 Why Can't I Make You High?
05 Frozen
06 Too Young
07 Think Twice
08 Big Time
09 Repeats
10 Wifey
11 Be My Producer

While Siciliano will not be appearing with Herbert on his upcoming tour, she will be touring in support of Slappers. Those dates, however, have yet to be confirmed.