{"title":"Allie X","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"girl-with-no-face","title":"Girl With No Face","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlbums of the Year 2024 - Number 61\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfused with industrial synths \u003cb\u003eAllie X\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eGirl with No Face\u003c\/i\u003e is a world-building exercise, showcasing how synthpop and its retro-futuristic nature works so well in contemporary music. With nods to The Human League and New Order the sound is motorik, alluring dark pop with crisp melodic production, a call to the dancefloor for fans of gothic tinged production or Billie Eilish's electro-pop leaning. - \u003ci\u003eGeorgia, Rough Trade Office\u003c\/i\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blog.roughtrade.com\/gb\/uk-albums-of-the-year-so-far-2024\/\"\u003eAlbums of the Year So Far 2024\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllie X’s fourth album, \u003ci\u003eGirl With No Face\u003c\/i\u003e, is a daring excavation of her identity. A maniacal journey into the mind of an artist who just spent three years in isolation, refusing any input as she became the solitary producer, writer and creative voice for the first time in her career. “This record documents an intense struggle for power and control – creatively, professionally, mentally and physically,” X explains. Inspired by the technology and hedonism of the early 80’s new wave scene, the album’s analogue-leaning songs are a series of stark contradictions – retro in feel but ultra-modern in subject matter, pointed, unpredictable yet danceable, approachable while delightfully menacing. In short, \u003ci\u003eGirl with No Face\u003c\/i\u003e is completely orthogonal to the hyper-tuned, automated shapes that dominate today’s alt pop. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Infused with early 80’s British experimentalism, with nods to The Human League and New Order, the album is a strident move away from 2020’s introspective and spare \u003ci\u003eCape God\u003c\/i\u003e - so much faster, more threatening. It’s not difficult to envision an industrial booted and black-eyed 80s subculture mouthing the German verses of “Weird World” and thrashing about to the relentless pulsing bass. Self-deprecation and the driest of wits lighten the aggressive mood of the record, especially in songs like You Slept on Me (a musical manifestation of the age-old tweet ‘Stop sleeping on Allie X!’) and Off With Her Tits (an upbeat satirisation of some of Allie X’s more unsettling thoughts). Her signature deranged Disney-princess pop sensibility still manages to weave its way into most songs . “I always need a bit of camp,” says X, “it counterbalances the dark thoughts in a necessary way.” In the end, the multi-platinum songwriter enlisted the help of Justin Meldal Johnsen (Beck, M83, Wolf Alice). “The best comparison I can make is intentionally locking yourself in a room and sitting in front of a mirror staring at yourself. When everything is refracted through your lens you get high on the sense of power and control. But as you get to know yourself intimately, you see your own ugliness, your limitations, your pain. It’s terrifying and enlightening all at once. 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It's an HBO doc called \"heroine: cape god\".Though I've never done junk and don't plan on trying it, in an abstract way I found myself relating to the film's young interviewee's. I've never spoken much publicly about this, but during high school, I was in and out of the hospital with physical illness. Often debilitatingly sick. To say it shaped my adolescence is an understatement. In multiple ways I related to the characters I saw in the documentary. Going into these feelings I had as a teenager was the perspective I chose to write this album from. It happened very naturally and without much thought - it became \"Cape God\". I would say Cape God is a liminal space I created to explore my repressed feelings and perhaps create a different outcome. 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