In The Politics of Double Beds, Niki Gravino has at once deepened and widened the musical aesthetic incipient in Vitamins and Eyecream.

A wide variety of styles are deployed with a view to lure the listener into a strange and unfriendly, yet beautiful world where traditional dichotomies share very small rooms. It is a work of musical architecture and design, loosely conceptual, with strong internal links and continuities neatly balanced with an insistent sense of fragmentation, loss and fragility. In it the darkly and elegantly romantic is interrupted by paroxysms of uncompromising bad taste; existential anxiety, panic and paranoia soothed by hopeful stillness.

The Politics of Double Beds has been performed, engineered and produced by Niki Gravino in relative aloneness at Foreface. The intensity of the long and grueling process transpires in the music as a dense and moody aesthetic.

The Politics of Double Beds will be launched in style on 30 November at SKY, Paceville (opposite Dragonara). It promises to be an unmissable experience. It will be based on the same principles of the 2004 launch party, only better. Niki Gravino and the Vile Bodies will perform a full set focused mainly but not exclusively around the material on the new album, alongside theatrical choreographies, visuals, and what may be an unprecedented approach to artful entertainment on the island.

Tickets are available at Lm5.00 from Sky and BJ’s in Paceville, Goth Hairdressing and Nara Camicie in Sliema, Valmore in Paola, and all Chilli Stores. For more information please visit www.nikigravino.com.