Description
Label Review.
2017 debut album.
Our Overview.
Hannah Rodgers, a.k.a. Pixx is a singer-songwriter from Chipstead just beyond the borders of South London. Growing up singing along to Kate Bush, Altered Images and Joni Mitchell, Prixx honed her skills in melancholy indie pop and her rich alt-soul voice – think St Vincent, The xx and London Grammar’s Hannah Reid – at the BRIT school before signed to the none-less-BRIT indie label 4AD aged 19. Her debut ‘Fall In’ EP emerged in the summer of 2015, four deeply personal folk torch songs about heartbreak and introspection which The Sunday Times called “one of the most arresting debuts of the year”.
‘The Age Of Anxiety’ is Pixx’s debut album and it finds her ostensibly place herself on the outside, looking in. Including ‘I Bow Down’ and ‘Baboo’, the 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. A bold debut, it borrows its title from WH Auden’s final poem which was published in 1947, which charted one man’s quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialised world.
“Pixx possesses the same celestial qualities as fellow label-mates Cocteau Twins or Blonde Redhead with a little astral, new age aesthetic of Grimes and the gothic melancholy of Bauhaus.” - The Guardian