Penelope One by Penelope Trappes
The debut solo album from Penelope Trappes - “Penelope One”
“In 2016. I rented out a small piano studio in East London for nearly a year and set out to write an introspective, trendless, and mostly beatless album. Inspired by albums from This Mortal Coil and Scott Walker, who also sought freedom to work outside of the expectations of their previous work, I limited the instrumentation to mostly an acoustic piano and effects, which left space to expose a lot of emotional vulnerabilities about myself and people close to me. Writing lullabies about being a mother in a dystopian world, with pensive words about swimming against the current as a female artist, I felt free enough to tell untold truths that I’ve never felt comfortable talking about within music. Free, liberated, empowered... naked.”
Tracklist
| 1. | Puppets | 3:07 |
| 2. | Gravel Mouth | 3:11 |
| 3. | Untitled 1 | 2:24 |
| 4. | Gone | 3:08 |
| 5. | The Hair Shirt | 3:59 |
| 6. | Untitled 4 | 1:41 |
| 7. | Heartbreak | 2:44 |
| 8. | Gold Universe | 2:52 |
| 9. | Untitled 3 | 2:17 |
| 10. | Low | 2:52 |
| 11. | 9 Monkey | 2:40 |
Credits
(c) & (p) 2017 Penelope Trappes
License
All rights reserved.
“intimate and surreal—like watching yourself mourn intense tragedy from an outsider’s vantage point.” -Bandcamp
"the sound of dust motes momentarily caught in a shaft of moonlight, of spirits pushing through from another realm. Alluring yet unsettling.” -Electronic Sound
"striking work of evolution and deconstruction" -The Wire
“Summoning the great ghosts of vintage 4AD and Kranky” -Pitchfork