Photo by Maddy Gower
A newcomer from the Brighton musical melting pot, Girl Apocrypha has dropped her debut single, ‘Dealer’. Dark, brutal and sharp with an elegant flourish of brighter sounds, there’s intention to the sound and a refinement not always found in an artist’s first outing.
Her experience comes as lead songwriter in Brighton band Faeser, but, after years on guitar and bass, she ventures forth as a solo artist with striking control.
Synth stabs make our introduction, then incorporate into a hazy atmosphere of bass grooves, loose drums and a lush guitar. Where the verses float in an atmospheric state of reflection and rhythm, the choruses lash out with intensifying distortion, bringing the overall cocktail between light shoegaze and gritty grunge-pop.
In the artist’s words, “Dealer describes the out-of-body experience you have when you’re suddenly able to see all your reckless, destructive behaviours from an outsider’s perspective, leaving you entirely disillusioned. It’s really a diss track about myself. It was written at a very low point, when I felt that everyone I cared about was getting sick of me, and I was like ‘You know what? I’m sick of myself.’ Sometimes you can find yourself at a crossroads where you have to choose between getting better or sinking deeper down, and I like to think of Dealer as that final patch of darkness right before you find the will to swim to the surface.”
Listen to the debut single here:
