ALEXMALISM by Alexmalism

After countless sleepless nights in his studio in Tai Kok Tsui, Alexmalism aka Alex Yiu is presenting his self-titled album "ALEXMALISM".

Alexmalism’s self-titled album "ALEXMALISM" is about a singer-songwriter and music producer Alex Yiu aka Alexmalism uses music and words to process his anxiety, erotic desire, depression and hope about the future, love, the Internet and the urban environment. Although the songs in "ALEXMALISM" can be considered as Cantopop technically, the music style is all-encompassing, from Deconstructed Club, to Trip-hop, Breakbeat, Trap, Industrial, Trance, Drill etc. These styles play the role of supporting various emotions under the lyrics driven melody dominated by Cantonese contour.

"Dusk" combines Nietzsche's words recited by WaveNet artificial intelligence and singing with movie-like soundtracks to kick off the album, it is a story that takes place after dusk to flicker in between one's own dream/non-dream. "Virtual Delusion" combines the heavy beats of Synthwave and hardcore, using lyrics to deal with the alienation of the relationship between people and people behind the screen. "Ocean'' takes the audience back to the author's mind with 90s-style Trip-hop, and uses the post-apocalyptic city as a metaphor for the passing of love. "True and False, You and Me" was produced by music producer Kelvin T. in the style of deconstructing club music, the lyrics wander around an imaginary "you", questioning the right or wrong of his own beliefs. With dreamy texture and rhythm, the lyrics of "Fragrance" uses various notes and names commonly found in perfumes to symbolize the different personalities and concepts in people. "Secret City'' turns a brisk industrial style rhythm, showing eroticism in the dark corner of the city that has lost hope. "Grey'' expresses anxiety about the world with dark trap music. "Dream Within" is a Dancehall/trance hybrid track with very tight lyrics to find an exit in a lost dream. "Whale. Luna. Starry Night" expresses the author's fantasy and the distress of creation with poetic lyrics. "Dawn", as the final song of this album, begins the verse with a trance-like opening, and then a Drill section suddenly comes, and at the end concludes with an artificial choir consisting of Alexmalism’s voice to farewell the night and welcome the dawn.

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