New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Eclectic-majestic songstress Evelinn Trouble shares her latest dizzying offering "Hope
Music EP", set for release on 4th May via Radicalis. Her previous enthralling singles 'Monstruous' and 'Hope Music' (the title-track of the upcoming EP), have received support from the likes of
Clash Magazine, All Things Go Music, Noisey and Variance Mag have also been met with an overwhelmingly positive response from fans and media alike. Originally hailing from Zürich, the now Berlin-based Evelinn Trouble has already racked up over a quarter million Youtube views, seen support from Line Of Best Fit and her track 'Sunset Everytime' was named by Noisey as one of "The 33 best
Swiss rock, indie and alternative songs of the year" with radioplay including Switzerland's
Radio SRF3. Trouble performed back-up vocals for
Swiss export
Sophie Hunger, and has collaborated with STRESS, and she has taken to the stages of The Great Escape Festival and Montreux Jazz Festival.
Born in Zurich to a Swedish jazz singer mother, Trouble grew up in the city's vibrant squat scene, where her musical talents were battle tested living and playing in occupied houses. "Performing in front of drunk punks at 2 am on a stage, on the verge of collapsing teaches you everything you need to know as a musician," she says brandishing both emotional and physical scars - some of which she acquired from leaping in front of a moving train in her early twenties. She awoke in a hospital bed, miraculously surviving the 10 000 volts of electricity that passed through her body. Four albums and three EP's later, she has emerged, and channelled her shadow-self into a vast sonic universe of dark poetry and breathtaking beauty, never bothering about genre boxes or playing it safe. She is renowned for her visual work, directing her own music videos as well as videos for other bands, her poetic visual language being traceable to the DIY background she is from, be it a remake of the classic Wizard of Oz as a trashy splatter short film or a ride in her tour bus that leads through a fractal zoom to a place above the clouds. She played the bloodthirsty Salomé in the opera of the same name, composed music for several plays and film and is regularly touring the world with a contemporary theatre company, miming a knight who - much like herself- was hit by lightning.
Citing the likes of Frank Zappa, Nina Simone, Karon Dalton and
Jimi Hendrix as influences, Evelinn Trouble's sound begins at the intersection where
Thom Yorke meets Patti Smith. Like her debut, she recorded and produced this release herself, the sonic universe being a collage of two years of home recording in several bedrooms, attics and hotel rooms across the globe - mixed in Berlin, where her nomadic spirit resides for now.
Evelinn Trouble's enthralling EP 'Hope Music' is nothing short of a mesmerizing, captivating experience; an exploration of the unknown. The title track, 'Hope Music', showcases Trouble's unique vocal work - emerging like a Djinn, and powerfully asserts her every word. The title-track traverses melancholic territory yet unfolds as an anthem of hope - delivered by an artist that has truly lived every line in her songs. The intoxicating 'Monstruous', according to Trouble, resulted in "a collage of two years of home recording in several bedrooms, attics and hotel rooms across the globe", while 'Prison' is a definite swayer, part-dreamy, part-lucid amidst unforgiving energy - all encompassing on the EP's sleek, sultry psychedelic-pop chemistry, undoubtedly crafted with the utmost of care and celestial-wisdom.
Explaining the process and inspiration behind her new EP, Trouble comments: "This kind of writing doesn't come easy to me. Now I love it for what it is; songs about the impossibility of love, made of scraps, wrapped shiny in plastic. There is this card in
Tarot called the "Hanged Man" - it became a symbol for the song 'Prison' to me. The card means that you are stuck in a situation and you have to wait it out. There is literally nothing you can about it, your hands are tied. You can't move, but you want to. That creates a lot of tension, that's why the song sounds so aggravated in places."
Hope
Music Tracklist:
1. Hope Music
2. Monstruous
3. Prison
4. Goodbye
