Freak Slug, the project of the Manchester multi-disciplinary artist Xenya Genovese, announces her debut album, I Blow Out Big Candles, for release on November 8 via her new label home, Future Classic.
Recorded in Manchester and London with Alex Headford (Jadu Heart / Gretel), I Blow Out Big Candles is playful, fun, but not shying away from the darker sides of both sound and psyche. A debut that builds a whole world for it to live in, I Blow Out Big Candles dreams as big and unshackled as Freak Slug herself.
The album’s first punchy single, ‘Spells’, is out now, and epitomises Freak Slug’s fearless attitude. A strange prowl of a song that pairs a slinking bass line with a deliciously twitchy electronic motif, the daredevil song was inspired by Gorillaz and written “for the lovers and the I don’t knowers”. Xenya explains more about the song: “Spells is a track I made with Alex from Jadu Heart and it’s the first song we ever made together on the album. We worked fast together in a hyper environment where the sun was shining through the windows and I was stealing his cigarettes smoking in the garden in excitement from making the song.”
I Blow Out Big Candles:
- Ya Ready
- Spells
- Get Away
- Sexy Lemon
- Gently
- Be Your Girl
- Witch
- Hello
- Piece Of Cake
- Ugly Smile
