Trixie Whitley — Lacuna (April 10, 2019) 
≡ Nikdy se nebojí vzdorovat žánrům a svou práci na Lacuně odhaluje Trixie tím, jak vtahuje klasický soul do budoucího světa prostřednictvím fascinující, opojné směsi hi~fi elektronických zvuků, hypnotických rytmů a jejích vokálů s rozjímavými texty.
Born: June 24, 1987, Ghent, Belgium
Location: Ghent, Belgium ~~ Brooklyn, New York
Album release: April 10, 2019
Record Label: Unday Records
Duration: 21:00+19:48 => 40:48
Tracks:
A1. Intro 1:13
A2. Heartbeat 3:15
A3. Long Time Coming 4:08
A4. May Cannan 4:18
A5. Dandy 4:06
A6. Time 4:26
B1. Touch 3:58
B2. Bleak 4:09
B3. Fishing For Stars 4:09
B4. Dare to Imagine 4:00
B5. The Hotter I Burn 3:32
≡ Trixie Whitley rang in the new year the release of her eagerly album ‘Lacuna’. The newest record was created in conjunction with Run The Jewels producer Little Shalimar and was set for release on March 29, 2019. ‘Lacuna’ was entirely written and recorded in Brooklyn, NY where Trixie resides. Never afraid to defy genres, her work on ‘Lacuna’ with producer/engineer Little Shalimar and mixer Pat Dillett, sees Trixie pulling classic soul into a future world through a fascinating, heady blend of hi~fi electronic sounds, hypnotic rhythms, and her trademark vocals with gut punching lyrics.
≡ Trixie touring Europe and North~America throughout 2019 in support of ‘Lacuna’. A first string of dates including a series of Benelux shows — has been announced, as well as a support tour with dEUS.
≡ Along with the album announcement, Trixie released ‘Touch’. ‘Touch’ is the second track of the new album to be unveiled after the teaser release of ‘Heartbeat’ in May 2018. ‘Touch’ is also the first part of a music video trilogy shot by visual artist Hannah Marshall, whose creative direction accentuated Trixie’s impressive performances at Pukkelpop & Lowlands last summer. Hannah Marshall is known for her black, monochromatic aesthetic and her work with bands such as The xx, Florence and The Machine, Savages and Goldfrapp.
Review
Written By Hal Horowitz // March 28, 2019 // Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
≡ “Every day I live and I die a little/ I rise and I fall, evolve and dissolve,” sings Trixie Whitley on the closing song of her first collection of original music in three years. Anyone following the singer~songwriter’s eclectic career as a genre pushing artist whose only consistent quality is her restlessness will understand the honesty behind that statement. She remains true to her ever~evolving vision on the unusual and relentlessly innovative Lacuna.
≡ For album number three, Whitley joins forces with multi~instrumentalist/producer Little Shalimar, best known for his work with hip~hop duo Run The Jewels. He places her driving voice and poetic, occasionally confrontational, always provocative lyrics over bubbling, frequently caffeinated synthesized backing (he’s credited with “bleeps, bloops, bangs and whizzes”) which infuses further anxiety into her songs. In the thumping “Heartbeat,” she sings, “Where has your focus been/ Oh just feeding my every sin.” In that example and others, Lacuna (the word means a blank space or missing part) feels like a bleak, ill~fated breakup, reflective treatise, at least in parts like “Dare to Imagine,” with the lyrics “I project my reflections onto the man … I can’t blame him when he won’t go there with me.”
≡ Whitley is an uncompromising artist who goes “Fishing For Stars,” as she names a song with a combination of the experimentalism of Laurie Anderson or Kate Bush.
≡ Another tune, “Dandy,” kicks off with an explosive avant~garde tenor sax solo which bursts out of the speakers like a bolt of lightning. It sets the stage for a vibrating, synthesized backbeat where Whitley double tracks her voice on the chorus. After asking “are these the signs of our times?”, she spits out a machine gun~styled barrage of names like “the racist, the humanist, the realist, the rapist,” etc. with coiled~snake resolve. Even the quieter moments are gripping with a combination of ominous music and Whitley’s expressive lyrics, and an edgy, often jazzy approach that reflects anger, along with a jittery sense of frustration with the status quo.
≡ Her remarkably soulful voice adds warmth to the synth backing that can sound chilly and brittle on songs such as “Touch.” Perhaps her music is best exemplified by the video for “Long Time Coming” (watch below), one of three similarly conceptual, evocative pieces created for this album’s music. The crisp black~and~white palette and the stimulating interpretive dance reflect the music’s overall discomforting vibe. Better still, the chorus has a hook you’ll remember long after the song has ended.
≡ None of this is easy to digest, but that’s the point. Trixie Whitley is, and has always been, about pushing buttons and boundaries, making you think while absorbing and balancing her artistic prowess. It’s part of a career that’s a marathon, not a sprint. The absorbing, challenging, sometimes even abrasive but always involving Lacuna is another mile~marker on it you’ll not soon forget. ≡ https://americansongwriter.com/
As Trixie Whitley:
≡ Strong Blood — EP (2008)
≡ The Engine — EP (2009)
≡ Live at Rockwood Music Hall — EP (2011)
≡ Fourth Corner (2013)
≡ Porta Bohemica (2015)
≡ Lacuna (2019)
Website: https://www.trixiewhitley.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TRIXIE_WHITLEY
Label: https://www.decks.de/
Label: https://undayrecords.bigcartel.com/
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Born: June 24, 1987, Ghent, Belgium
Location: Ghent, Belgium ~~ Brooklyn, New York
Album release: April 10, 2019
Record Label: Unday Records
Duration: 21:00+19:48 => 40:48
Tracks:
A1. Intro 1:13
A2. Heartbeat 3:15
A3. Long Time Coming 4:08
A4. May Cannan 4:18
A5. Dandy 4:06
A6. Time 4:26
B1. Touch 3:58
B2. Bleak 4:09
B3. Fishing For Stars 4:09
B4. Dare to Imagine 4:00
B5. The Hotter I Burn 3:32
≡ Trixie Whitley rang in the new year the release of her eagerly album ‘Lacuna’. The newest record was created in conjunction with Run The Jewels producer Little Shalimar and was set for release on March 29, 2019. ‘Lacuna’ was entirely written and recorded in Brooklyn, NY where Trixie resides. Never afraid to defy genres, her work on ‘Lacuna’ with producer/engineer Little Shalimar and mixer Pat Dillett, sees Trixie pulling classic soul into a future world through a fascinating, heady blend of hi~fi electronic sounds, hypnotic rhythms, and her trademark vocals with gut punching lyrics.
≡ Trixie touring Europe and North~America throughout 2019 in support of ‘Lacuna’. A first string of dates including a series of Benelux shows — has been announced, as well as a support tour with dEUS.
≡ Along with the album announcement, Trixie released ‘Touch’. ‘Touch’ is the second track of the new album to be unveiled after the teaser release of ‘Heartbeat’ in May 2018. ‘Touch’ is also the first part of a music video trilogy shot by visual artist Hannah Marshall, whose creative direction accentuated Trixie’s impressive performances at Pukkelpop & Lowlands last summer. Hannah Marshall is known for her black, monochromatic aesthetic and her work with bands such as The xx, Florence and The Machine, Savages and Goldfrapp.
Review
Written By Hal Horowitz // March 28, 2019 // Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
≡ “Every day I live and I die a little/ I rise and I fall, evolve and dissolve,” sings Trixie Whitley on the closing song of her first collection of original music in three years. Anyone following the singer~songwriter’s eclectic career as a genre pushing artist whose only consistent quality is her restlessness will understand the honesty behind that statement. She remains true to her ever~evolving vision on the unusual and relentlessly innovative Lacuna.
≡ For album number three, Whitley joins forces with multi~instrumentalist/producer Little Shalimar, best known for his work with hip~hop duo Run The Jewels. He places her driving voice and poetic, occasionally confrontational, always provocative lyrics over bubbling, frequently caffeinated synthesized backing (he’s credited with “bleeps, bloops, bangs and whizzes”) which infuses further anxiety into her songs. In the thumping “Heartbeat,” she sings, “Where has your focus been/ Oh just feeding my every sin.” In that example and others, Lacuna (the word means a blank space or missing part) feels like a bleak, ill~fated breakup, reflective treatise, at least in parts like “Dare to Imagine,” with the lyrics “I project my reflections onto the man … I can’t blame him when he won’t go there with me.”
≡ Whitley is an uncompromising artist who goes “Fishing For Stars,” as she names a song with a combination of the experimentalism of Laurie Anderson or Kate Bush.
≡ Another tune, “Dandy,” kicks off with an explosive avant~garde tenor sax solo which bursts out of the speakers like a bolt of lightning. It sets the stage for a vibrating, synthesized backbeat where Whitley double tracks her voice on the chorus. After asking “are these the signs of our times?”, she spits out a machine gun~styled barrage of names like “the racist, the humanist, the realist, the rapist,” etc. with coiled~snake resolve. Even the quieter moments are gripping with a combination of ominous music and Whitley’s expressive lyrics, and an edgy, often jazzy approach that reflects anger, along with a jittery sense of frustration with the status quo.
≡ Her remarkably soulful voice adds warmth to the synth backing that can sound chilly and brittle on songs such as “Touch.” Perhaps her music is best exemplified by the video for “Long Time Coming” (watch below), one of three similarly conceptual, evocative pieces created for this album’s music. The crisp black~and~white palette and the stimulating interpretive dance reflect the music’s overall discomforting vibe. Better still, the chorus has a hook you’ll remember long after the song has ended.
≡ None of this is easy to digest, but that’s the point. Trixie Whitley is, and has always been, about pushing buttons and boundaries, making you think while absorbing and balancing her artistic prowess. It’s part of a career that’s a marathon, not a sprint. The absorbing, challenging, sometimes even abrasive but always involving Lacuna is another mile~marker on it you’ll not soon forget. ≡ https://americansongwriter.com/
As Trixie Whitley:
≡ Strong Blood — EP (2008)
≡ The Engine — EP (2009)
≡ Live at Rockwood Music Hall — EP (2011)
≡ Fourth Corner (2013)
≡ Porta Bohemica (2015)
≡ Lacuna (2019)
Website: https://www.trixiewhitley.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TRIXIE_WHITLEY
Label: https://www.decks.de/
Label: https://undayrecords.bigcartel.com/
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