'To put a name on it. Would be to nail the age of anxiety...'
Hannah Rodgers, AKA Pixx's debut album The Age of Anxiety which came out a couple of months back on 4AD, is a lesson in melodic electronic brevity, an excellent and brave first step that finds exactly the right balance between experiment, innovation and poppy immediacy.
Borrowing its name from W.H.Auden's Post-War book length poem talking about the difficulty of maintaining basic humanity in a world that appears to have rejected rationality, it's an attempt to tackle similarly weighty issues, which appear equally pertinent in 2017 given what's going on, all the while coating the messages in appetising electro melodies.
The record is an engaging and diverse listen. It seems apt that it's on 4AD, there are vague echoes of the labels trademark eighties sound, but it's very much a here and now and album at the same time. Slightly different from much of the stuff I post on here but definitely a bold and noteworthy statement.
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