It may seem a leap to go from The Cure to Shygirl, but there's a tenuous link in that respectively they have the capacity to make me want to dance and send a shiver down my spine in the same song.
I first heard of and posted about Shygirl in January this year, when she and Nuxxe co-founder and label mate Sega Bodega aka Salvador Navarrete remixed a Björk song, Ovule. I liked it a lot.
Björk's now repaid the favour by remixing and adding vocals to Woe, the opening track from Shygirl's debut album from last year, Nymph. Sub-titled I See It From Your Side, the song starts off quite ordinarily before left turning into more familiar Björk territory at 0:22. It's an unsettling ride, enhanced to unsettling effect by the video, directed by Sam Ibram. The remix was originally released last month and has been bundled and re-released with 3 other tracks as the Playboy/Positions EP.
According to Iffypedia, Shygirl aka Blane Muise creates music that "incorporates elements of dance music, industrial hip-hop, experimental pop, grime and deconstructed club. She has also been associated with the hyperpop music scene. I don't know what most of these genres are, to be honest, but there's something morbidly fascinating about the songs.
Each of the tracks has an accompanying video: Playboy/Positions is particularly weird; Heaven (ft. Tinashe) has a rather bizarre visual nod to TLC's Waterfall; Poison (Club Shy Mix) features Shygirl as an albino; lots of distorted mirror effects, variable lighting and strobing and jump cuts throughout.
If this has piqued your curiosity, the EP is available via Bandcamp and the usual outlets.
Oh, and an early happy 30th birthday to Shygirl for 4th May.
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