Posts Tagged ‘Hannah Rodgers’

PIXX – ” Disgrace “

Posted: March 13, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Hannah Rodgers returns with a new Pixx album, “Small Mercies”, on 7th June 2019.

Although love lives at the heart of the BRIT School graduate’s second album, it has little to do with romance. Small Mercies is absolutely not a heartbreak record, nor is it a celebration of new love, or sisterly call-to-arms or vengeful catharsis. Instead, it is a series of poetic examinations of love across the experiential spectrum, from the micro (self-love) to the macro (devotional faith-inspired love, love for this planet), set to a soundtrack that mixes electronic pop and grungy guitar rock with aplomb.

‘Disgrace’ is the new single by Pixx, from the album ‘Small Mercies’ which is released 7th June 2019 on 4AD Records.

PIXX – ” The Age Of Anxiety “

Posted: April 30, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Released on 2nd June, The Age Of Anxiety is a brave step forward from Pixx’s first release, 2015’s Fall In EP.  A deeply personal document of heartbreak, those four folk-infused torch songs drew early critical praise, with the Sunday Times hailing it “one of the most arresting debuts of the year,” and led to tours with the likes of Daughter, Lush and Glass Animals.

Instead of tales of loss and affairs of the heart, The Age Of Anxiety finds Hannah Rodgers ostensibly place herself outside looking in.  Her twelve-song collection seeks to address a generation increasingly isolated by an unprecedented new world order, from the pressures of social media to ever-changing political turbulence.

This bold debut borrows its title from W.H. Auden’s final poem, charting one man’s quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialised world.  Published in 1947, Auden’s six-part rumination on human isolation in the modern age parallels the overarching themes of Pixx’s work some 70 years later.

Originally from Chipstead, just beyond the fringes of south London where suburban sprawl start to break into countryside, Rodgers experienced a year-long period of insomnia caused by recurring nightmares at age 9 – her first awareness of anxiety. It left a lasting impression, inspiring a fascination with different states of consciousness, and is one of many somnolent events she draws upon for The Age Of Anxiety.

PIXX – ” Fall In EP “

Posted: January 8, 2016 in MUSIC
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4AD Records newcomer Pixx has a history of making videos that look like they’re taken straight from the pages of a Thomas Hardy novel. July single ‘Fall In’, the track that first really got Hannah Rodgers noticed, was a downward-looking beachside lament, all Autumn tones and a doomy aesthetic that coolly matched the music’s solemn beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhPb5qVtRU

‘Deplore’, which is taken from the Fall In EP, sees a move to rural Surrey, and more surrealism. Here’s what directors The Marshall Darlings had to say about it:
“We like to play on this idea of magical realism in the videos we make for Pixx, and she plays the part really well. We came across an artist called Andrea Kowch who does paintings of women in rural America in these quite ghostly scenes, and we thought it would fit really well for this. We didn’t try and copy her paintings, but used them as references with each shot a vignette conveying a particular emotion, almost like a moving painting.”

Fall In EP

1. Fall In, 2. A Way To Say Goodbye, 3. Flee 4. Deplore

PIXX – ” A Way To Say Goodbye “

Posted: January 7, 2016 in MUSIC
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4AD Records  newcomer Pixx’ released a stunning song last summer in July the single ‘Fall In’ was one of 2015’s most striking, a downward-looking beachside lament almost drowning in Autumn tones and doomy aesthetics. That’s what makes 19-year-old Hannah Rodgers so special – with her music, there’s almost always a sense of solemn beauty.