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Hexed!: Aya Sinclair Confronts Reality with Ferocious New Sound
13 Aug
Summary
- Artist Aya Sinclair explores sobriety and past traumas on her second album.
- The album 'hexed!' features intense, evolving soundscapes and visceral vocals.
- Sinclair's musical journey contrasts her Pentecostal upbringing with newfound freedom.
UK artist Aya Sinclair has released her second album, 'hexed!', a sonic confrontation with reality emerging from early sobriety. The album delves into memories of intense terrors, including substance abuse and dissociative panic attacks.
"hexed!" offers a stark contrast to Sinclair's debut, "im hole," featuring newly ferocious vocals over bristling, oozing soundscapes. This work feels intensely real, pulling the artist into a furnace of emotion despite attempts at a cool facade.
Sonically, the album is a dense synthesis of genres, from acid house to industrial chugs, with tracks like "the names of Faggot Chav boys" and "navel gazer" exemplifying its visceral crisis. Sinclair's vocal delivery on "heat death" pierces silence with a commanding calm.
Sinclair's artistic evolution is rooted in her youth in Huddersfield, where a Pentecostal upbringing clashed with her realization of being queer. This led her to leave the church, move to Manchester, and embrace dance music, drugs, and transitioning, finding a different kind of euphoria.
