The distorted drone that runs through Eve Essex’s “The Fabulous Truth,” the title track to her forthcoming full-length (which releases on June 20, 2024 via Soap Library on digital, cassette and LP) conveys a sense of introspection and a taking an assessment of how things have been and one’s place in it all. The languid guitar provided by Jenghis Manning-Petit burns in Essex’s lush and hazy washes of atmosphere and together with the accents of electronic percussion creates a sound like something one would hope to hear in a soundtrack for a film made from one of Moebius great science fiction epics. The music video for the song certainly has an aesthetic like one had the legendary artist used 90s computer game design tools to create a look like an artificial universe in 16 bit where people go to deconstruct the illusions of ego which seems to be the theme of Essex’s lyrics in the context of a world in which we all all operate and so much of navigating the world is presentation and the construction of identity to present when a real one that should be regularly evolving exists. The brooding drones and dramatic, soulful vocals are a little like if Light Asylum made a desert rock album and came out with something weirder and cooler. Watch the video for “The Fabulous Truth” on YouTube and follow Eve Essex at the Links below.
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