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Allie X
Allie X’s fourth record, Happiness Is Going to Get You, is a patina-tinged whirlwind of infernal and liminal nostalgia. Its sound—alive and rapturous—elaborates upon Hughes’ signature dark whimsy. Co-produced by Bastian Langebaek, Happiness Is Going to Get You dances through baroque flair—harpsichord, timpani, zither and strings colour the arrangements—while drenched in a chaotic multiple decade sprawl of influences such as Tori Amos, Paul McCartney, Bach, and Air, to name a few. Slowly spiralling through time, Happiness Is Going To Get You is a ferrotype portrait of a woman in free-fall, revisiting tableaus of her life with wide, wet eyes. Its storytelling—carrying a stark sense of eerie calm—balances an inevitable truth: that, as certainly as pain, happiness is coming.
This sense of newfound serenity doubly birthed the record’s heroic alter-ego: The Infant Marie—a bygone time-traveller encased in a Perspex cube, drifting through modernity in the album artwork, delivering the record’s titular message. Marie contrasts the cold, digital world of the twenty-first century and a more tactile, ornamental one recalled from childhood; between programmed beats and wooden keys; between a curated persona and the raw, unfiltered self trying to survive. Backed by this fully-formed narrative, Happiness Is Going to Get You plays like a tragicomedy—poetic, exposed and oddly at peace with its own cosmic punchline. It’s best captured on the rapturous ‘It’s Just Light’ , wherein Hughes captures the disquieting clarity that comes with surrender: “The light / It shines through the glass / And it burns me with its rays.” Hughes doesn’t fight it anymore. She lets it in.
Maiah Manser
Los Angeles-based, noir-pop songstress Maiah Manser dissolves differences and builds bridges between the worlds of automation and nature. The grit and the raw in lyrics combined with her hauntingly powerful vocals, drive together to create a chilling sensation that is both concrete and abstract, in sound and in concept. As a student in Seattle, she met Mary Lambert; that chance meeting opened the door for an opportunity to tour with Lambert as a backing vocalist, opening for artists like Sam Smith, Ariana Grande & Pharrell Williams.
At 20 years old she started her professional career as a solo artist. During her solo career, Maiah has shared the stage with artists such as Bishop Briggs, CHVRCHES, Crystal Castles & ODESZA. Teaming up with Buddy Ross (Producer: Frank Ocean, HAIM, Unknown Mortal Orchestra), Phillip Peterson (Strings: Taylor Swift, Cashmere Cat, Santigold, A$AP Rocky), and the late Tom Coyne (Mastering: Adele, Beyoncé, The Weeknd), Maiah Manser’s debut Second Skin EP was released in spring 2017.
Since moving to Los Angeles from Seattle in 2017, Maiah has sonically explored a new side to her artistry in her recent releases with glistening yet edgy pop production.