Eve Essex – The Fabulous Truth
The Fabulous Truth is an homage to the anti-hero — an eight song suite that explores moral ambiguities, life in the shadows, and the possibility of escape from social expectations. The second full-length album by composer and multi-instrumentalist Eve Essex, The Fabulous Truth is both an ecstatic paean to liberty and an intense look at the psychological prices paid for seeking independence in an unforgiving world.
Drawing on influences as diverse as trip-hop, outlaw country, kosmische, spiritual jazz, avant-garde classical, and—yes—musical theater, Essex sets jewel-like portraits of rebellion against a velvet-black background of stormy electronics and uneasy minimalism.
The Fabulous Truth album is announced today for a June 21st release via Soap Library in digital, cassette, and LP formats — a first for the label. Cassettes are accompanied by an embroidered patch that mirrors James JA Mercer’s cover artwork.
Essex also shares the single and video for the title track “The Fabulous Truth” today as well.
It features guitarist jenghis, whose volcanic guitar is underpinned by threatening deep bass drones and heartbeat-like kicks. Essex’s soulful and controlled vocals glide above the low-end menace, singing of disappearance, hinting at a difficult choice between needing security and wanting freedom.
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