Portland’s Glitterfox announce their debut full-length album decoder due out August 22 on Jealous Butcher Records.
The band is helmed by effervescent frontperson Solange Igoa (they/ them) and guitarist Andrea Walker (they/them) who, before recently splitting up amicably, were a couple for 12 years, six of them married. However, their musical connection is so profound that it has remained unaffected. “When I’m singing Andrea songs, I can feel the emotions that they were feeling — we’re experiencing this life together, you know?” Igoa says. Adds Walker, “I think about our connection musically. And it’s like, yeah, Solange is my voice.” A celebration of queer romance, the blissed-out lead single ‘Wildfires’ underlines this sentiment. Rooted in the energy of ’80s-inspired new wave synth-pop, it is as danceable as it is devastating—a song born from a spark of lust that blazes into something radiant, reckless, and impossible to contain.
decoder is a jubilant explosion of tracks that synthesizes the two songwriters’ garage rock, new wave, southern Americana and dance music influences into a sound that is singularly, inimitably Glitterfox. Their transparency in both life and art as they’ve shapeshifted is quite possibly Glitterfox’s greatest gift to us. “Of course, I have a lot of feelings, you know? When Andrea and I first started playing music together, I was a completely different person,” Igoa says. “I didn’t really know a lot about myself yet. Throughout our experiences together, I’ve felt more comfortable in myself and how to be unapologetically myself. We both learned to be unapologetically ourselves.”
decoder:
- Passenger
- Richie’s Party
- Gamma Ray
- Take Me Back
- Looking Away
- Polaroids
- Wildfires
- Change Me
- No Fade Away
- Waiting For
- Jesse Lee
