Time has not softened Peaches.
The Berlin-based artist, born Merrill Nisker, made her long-awaited return to American stages Tuesday night at Walter Studios in Phoenix, one stop on her current U.S. tour supporting “No Lube So Rude,” her first album in more than a decade. The show delivered a theatrical, boundary-dissolving set to a crowd that had been waiting, in some cases, 17 years, for this moment.
The audience showed their age, many of them now in their 30s and 40s, veterans of the early-aughts electro-punk era that made Peaches a cult icon. Her 2006 album “Impeach My Bush” was her commercial apex, full of aggressively playful, sex-drenched anthems like “Tent in your Pants” and “Boys Wanna Be Her.”
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This was not a nostalgia tour…