Allie X 'Girl With No Face' (out now)

[Chelsea Press 2]

Her latest album was released yesterday

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I discovered "Black Eye" during the most recent 2023 Wintertime Madness tournament. As a lover of 80s Synthpop, Hi Nrg, and Italodance, that particular song absolutely hit all those right notes with me and I checked out some of her other material and I love it.

This album is absolutely amazing! I will need to give it additional listens to pick out favorites, but it was thoroughly enjoyable. This is a great example of making an album in a throwback style that respectfully pays homage to the styles incorporated into the album but also is fresh and innovative without feeling derivative.

[Ling-Ling]

Okay, she's serving some straight up Kim Wilde and Berlin (circa Sex, I'm A...) vibes.

This is one of those albums, where when I'm in the mood for it, it's gonna slay. Not my frame of mind atm. But it's an excellent body of work. When I'm in my cunty synth pop vibe, this is gonna pop off.

[Active Aggressive]

I JUST found out about this girl (thanks, Anthony Fantano!) and, after seeing the video/hearing Off With Her Tits, I was like yup, this is for me. Ordered the vinyl and it came on Friday. I've only given it one spin all the way through, but yeah, this is for me, LOL. Also, what a fucking voice!! The pop girlies on the airwaves could NEVER!

[@DiegoMarcondes_]

I was so tired of 80's influence on pop music, BUT Allie X did it with excellence. The production, lyrics and vocals are high level.
"You Slept On Me" is a pop perfection.
The only track I don't love is "Hardware Software", the rest of the album is 10/10.

[Ling-Ling]

Mar 17, 2024 17:58:37 GMT -5 Ling-Ling said:

This is one of those albums, where when I'm in the mood for it, it's gonna slay.

The weather got colder this week and this went into high rotation, lol. It really is excellent. The fact that it was self-produced too, she killed it. I do agree that "Hardware Software" is the weak-link (really the only one and I don't even skip). My only other note, I really crave an icy, synth ballad to take this album totally over-the-top. I do like "Saddest Smile," but it doesn't quite hit that spot for me.

[Active Aggressive]

Yeah, she should have given us a Total Eclipse Of The Heart moment. Missed opportunity, but still, very impressed! Also...she looks so...normal? Not what I was expecting at all!

[𝐂𝐎𝐂𝐎🍁]

Girl with no face provided real dance pop and shamed the faceless others who provided sparse,thin vocals over a garage beat 🪘

Slay. It's rare my pussy gets wet in 2024 💦🌊💦

[Ling-Ling]

Mar 24, 2024 22:11:36 GMT -5 𝐂𝐎𝐂𝐎🍁 said:

and shamed the faceless others who provided sparse,thin vocals over a garage beat

PinkPantheress left shaking in a corner. She's a cute girl!

[Ling-Ling]

Why was I just looking at the lyrics of "Galina" on Genius, I thought it was about some broken relationship. She wrote it about some old Russian lady that made her eczema cream and retired and didn't leave anyone the recipe, lol.

I have really bad eczema in my inner elbows, and I found this Russian lady named Galina at this naturopathic clinic in Toronto. For years, she made me this cream in her kitchen that worked better than steroids. She would always say, ‘It cost me more to make this than I’m charging you. I get this man in the Swiss Alps to gather these herbs and I make you this cream.’ She was pretty old, so I always worried: ‘What happens when Galina retires? It’s not like this is some patented product.’ So sure enough, in the summer of 2022, I returned to the clinic, and I was like, ‘Could I place an order for the cream from Galina?’ And the lady was like, ‘Oh, Galina has retired.’ And I was like, ‘What!?! Did she tell anyone the recipe?‘ And she was like, 'No, she won’t tell. There’s nothing we can do—Galina has lost her memory.’ So the song is about somebody that you’ve come to rely on who just coldly leaves your life without something that you need.