The infectious DIY tracks from the buzzing musician PinkPantheress are part of a microgenre led by young women who came of age on the internet.
garnered considerable buzz for its idiosyncratic 505 beats and paired-down talk-singing, marries the two seemingly disjunctive sounds to create a collection of tunes that are equal parts groovy as they are self-reflective. Ives’ music is filled with crunchy basslines and homespun syncopations, tapping into a DIY sonic quality that’s both charming and compelling. She remarked over Zoom that “it always sounds good to me, that ‘Do It Yourself’ beat.
PinkPantheress and Grace Ives — who employ dated production technology and samples of U.K. garage and drum and bass — tap into a deeply nostalgic sound that conjures the height of Nineties U.K. culture, itself a moment defined by a celebratory hotbed of overlapping subcultures, from Jamaican dub to Detroit techno, acid house, reggae, hip-hop, and funk.
The two musicians, who described their sound as “Glam Demon Rock” in a recent conversation, met on Twitter in high school, and make songs that blend pop, hip-hop, and techno with cutesy but vulnerable lyricism. and HAWA. For what feels like the first time, female artists are in a space where they’re allowed to unapologeticallyThis new crop of young artists isn’t afraid to make music that could be perceived as overly “girly” — an idea that once signified frivolity and a lack of “true” artistry. In a time when it feels like most of Gen-Z are deeply unbothered by the limitations of gender, one wonders what “girly” even means anymore.
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