Jake Shears has shared the remixes of latest single “Last Man Dancing”, courtesy of Hifi Sean. The track is the title track and emotional mission statement from Shears’ acclaimed recent album, the Scissor Sisters frontman’s highest charting solo release to date, marking Jake Shears’ welcome return to Pop.
An affecting tribute to keep moving, whatever life throws at you, “Last Man Dancing” is brilliantly reimagined by Hifi Sean, with the Cosmic Disco Mix and Cosmic Disco Dub transforming the soaring, Abba-esque anthem into a sweaty, Italo-inspired club banger. Hifi Sean, the seminal Soup Dragons vocalist turned DJ and producer, has previously collaborated with the likes of David McAlmont, Nile Rogers, and Crystal Waters.
The self-confessed Last Man Dancing, Jake Shears’ new album in many ways feels like the record he was born to make. Full of incandescent nods to dance music pioneers, a Sylvester falsetto here, a Patrick Cowley cowbell there and a Berghain pulse, Shears’ lifelong love affair with club culture breaks new ground while also sounding like a spiritual homecoming. This is nowhere more apparent than on “Voices”, which witnesses Jake’s much-anticipated creative reunion with Kylie Minogue over an Italo, dream-like siren “calling you to action…calling you to love.”
This summer Jake Shears has carried Last Man Dancing out on the road, with sets ranging from Glastonbury, Mighty Hoopla and Pride to an intimate sold-out tour including London’s Village Underground. He also performed on live TV on Live With Kelly And Mark twice in NYC. With more to come from Last Man Dancing, he is currently working on other exciting projects to be unveiled very soon, continuing a polymathic career which has already taken Shears from an acclaimed memoir and Broadway show to his recent Olivier-Award-winning musical ‘Tammy Faye’. With work that still speaks evenly to the margins and the masses, Jake Shears’ pull to create has remained a constant, often the Last Man Dancing and always moving to his own beat.
