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Hexed!

    aya's incredibly inventive Hyperdub debut album im hole distilled the incisive sonic experimentation of her early run of releases, the tongue-in-cheek giggles of her DJ sets and radio show, and the identity fluxing lyricism of her live shows into a delirious tug of war between pleasure and dysmorphia. The album was championed from all corners, 'Best New Music' in Pitchfork to Radio 6 DJ Maryanne Hobbs 'Album of the Year', followed by a run of incredible live shows which drew new listeners further into her world.

    'hexed!', aya’s second album, confronts the desperation and dysfunction of addiction. Internalised phobias and suppressed traumas haunt the corridors and golden hours once romanticised on 2021’s im hole; daymares concealed by nocturnal afters-hopping and key bag circles. Opener ‘I am the pipe I hit myself with’ exposes the gray portrait secreted somewhere between the 8th and 9th floors of her previous record. ‘I used to say some shit for sure’, ‘I used to say it when I was me-less’. hexed! is about what happens when aya turns the lights on.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. I Am The Pipe I Hit Myself With
    2. Off To The ESSO
    3. The Names Of Faggot Chav Boys
    4. Heat Death
    5. Peach
    6. Hexed!
    7. Droplets
    8. Navel Gazer
    9. The Petard Is My Hoister
    10. Time At The Bar

    Aya

    Im Hole

      On 'im hole', aya distilled the incisive sonic experimentation of her early run of releases, the tongue-in-cheek giggles of her DJ sets and edits, and the identity-fluxing lyricism of her live shows. The album was immediately championed from all corners, 'Best New Music' in Pitchfork to DJ Mary Anne Hobbs Album of the Year, followed by incredible live shows which drew new listeners further into the net. Contorting language, dialect, gender and sexuality between intermittently controlled bursts of rhythm, noise and aural goop, aya sculpted a set of autobiographical vignettes that challenge established norms, question supposed truths, and affirm a spectrum of interlocking experiences. But while it's wide open and personal, im hole also challenges queer art's tendency to veer towards repetitive solipsism. Even the title itself references the unwieldy mix of self-actualization and sexualization that bogs down cultural perceptions of the trans experience. It's neither one thing nor t'other, just as much a sly nod to dissociative afterparty sloppiness as it is any self-congratulatory pinkwashed grandstanding. The music follows suit, fragmenting familiar sounds, twinned with familiar words, assembled in unfamiliar ways, full of sharp humour, even in the middle of despair. Stories are muddled with phonetics just as dubstep is macrodosed with microtonal drone.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Somewhere Between The 8th And 9th Floor
      2. What If I Should Fall Asleep And Slipp Under
      3. Once Wen’t West
      4. Dis Yacky
      5. OoBrosThesis
      6. The Only Solution I Have Found Is To Simply Jump Higher
      7. Still I Taste The Air
      8. Emley Lights Us Moor (feat. Iceboy Violet)
      9. Tailwind
      10. If [redacted] Thinks He's Having This As A Remix He Can Frankly Do One
      11. Backsliding


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