*CANCELLED* Allie X

Allie Xs fourth record, Happiness Is Going to Get You, is a patina-tinged whirlwind of infernal and liminal nostalgia. Its soundalive and rapturouselaborates upon Hughes signature dark whimsy. Co-produced by Bastian Langebaek, Happiness Is Going to Get You dances through baroque flairharpsichord, timpani, zither and strings colour the arrangementswhile 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 storytellingcarrying a stark sense of eerie calmbalances an inevitable truth: that, as certainly aspain, happiness is coming.This sense of newfound serenity doubly birthed the records heroic alter-ego: The Infant Mariea bygone time-traveller encased in a Perspex cube, drifting through modernity in the album artwork, delivering the records 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 tragicomedypoetic, exposed and oddly at peace with its own cosmic punchline. Its best captured on the rapturous Its 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 doesnt fight it anymore. She lets it in.

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