Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Pop. Also available on CD.
Our Overview.
‘Cape God’ will be the fourth studio release from iconoclastic pop darling Allie X - Canadian singer, songwriter and visual artist, aka Alexandra Ashley Hughes - and includes collaborations with Troye Sivan and Mitski. ‘Cape God’ is the follow-up to 2018's Super Sunset, which Nylon praised as the enigmatic artist's "most open effort yet, a semi-fictionalized account inspired by falling in love and her life amidst all the L.A. glitz and glamour.
Allie say of her new album: “In early 2018, I saw the documentary that started my journey to write this record. It’s an HBO doc called “heroine: cape god”. Though I’ve never done junk and don’t plan on trying it, in an abstract way I found myself relating to the film’s young interviewee’s. I’ve never spoken much publicly about this, but during high school, I was in and out of the hospital with physical illness. Often debilitatingly sick. To say it shaped my adolescence is an understatement.
“In multiple ways I related to the characters I saw in the documentary. Going into these feelings I had as a teenager was the perspective I chose to write this album from. It happened very naturally and without much thought - it became “Cape God”. I would say Cape God is a liminal space I created to explore my repressed feelings and perhaps create a different outcome. While in cape god, you are in limbo. you stay there until you die or come to life and while you are there you are somewhere in between.....”
The first single ‘Fresh Laundry’ was released in September 2019 and coincided with a series of tour dates supporting the likes of Charli XCX and MARINA across the US, UK and Europe.
Tracklisting: Fresh Laundry / Devil I Know / Regulars / Sarah Come Home / Rings A Bell / June Gloom / Love Me Wrong Ft. Troye Sivan / Super Duper Party People / Susie Save Your Love Ft. Mitski / Life Of The Party / Madame X / Learning In Public