This caught me fully off guard. It should come with a content warning. It’s creepy, sinister and raw electronic music with hip hop, industrial and hyperpop influences. It’s best listened to as a single experience — while there are a couple of songs that work as singles, it’s a richer thing as a whole.
The lyrics are often shocking in their bluntness and nihilism. The opening track’s spoken-word delivery sounds like a bitter diary entry after a failed relationship, and just ratchets up the tension from there. Dreams I Lost has the ingredients of a Bury A Friend-type superdark pop song, with disorienting vocal effects and layers:
The centrepiece of the EP is STALK me, which again starts like a sparse pop song, but gets creepy in a hurry, with unsettling lyrics and production that turns the whole pop song on its head, with hints of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral. This video is as gripping as the song is:
It stays weird, but you should experience it yourself. There’s only so much you can write about a thing like this. I listened to it three times in a row and I’m still struggling to describe it. At times it makes me think of the first time I heard The Weeknd’s House of Balloons.
Her prior releases hint at this direction — 2022’s 17 2 20 EP has a lot of similar production styles, but the songs are much more traditional in structure, and the songwriting isn’t as dark.
This is one of the most immersive things I’ve heard in 2024.
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