Australian dark-pop singer CXLOE has been plugging away ever since she launched “Powerful Love” again in 2017, and now she’s shared her debut album, Shiny New Factor.
Named after her disdain for fleeting relevancy, the report argues that staying true to your roots and embracing duality, quite than being put in a field, may result in nice heights. Alongside the best way, CXLOE contemplates if her lofty ambitions of stardom are value buying and selling her soul to an unsightly business (“I may allow you to personal me/Your favourite trophy/Please,” she belts on the title monitor) overtop an unpredictable mix of types that switches up throughout 13 songs, from digital rock to bouncy pop to ’80s synth. All of it provides as much as a placing and thought-provoking debut from an artist who creates with painstaking ardour.
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“When wanting again on the music I’ve been writing for the previous two years, a standard theme emerged,” CXLOE says. “Particularly tracks like ‘Shiny New Factor,’ ‘Shapeshifter,’ and ‘Dishonest on Myself’ delve into my complicated relationship with id, the need to morph into no matter is required within the second — generally facetiously, generally out of pure survival intuition. The choice to create an album gave me the chance and time to experiment with various sounds, permitting me to reconcile all these totally different sides and understand that there’s magnificence in pop music’s obsession with reinvention. This album embraces the truth that artists could be multifaceted with out compromising their authenticity in pursuit of turning into the subsequent ‘shiny new factor.’”
Stream CXLOE’s Shiny New Factor beneath.
