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Allie X is coming to Hungary for the first time with her fifth album. The Canadian singer-songwriter is also known for her unique live performances, so don't miss her show at A38 Ship on 28th June.

    After a long period of silence and isolation, Allie returned in 2024 to bring back her familiar goth-pop sound with Girl With No Face, but this time she'll let everyone into her world.

    The album is a manic journey into the mind of an artist who has just spent three years in isolation, becoming a lone producer, writer and creative voice for the first time in her career. She claims this album documents an intense struggle for power and control - creatively, professionally, mentally and physically. In the midst of an already isolated process, she was hospitalised in 2022 and as a result disappeared from the public eye until recently.

    Last year, she returned with two sold-out North American tours to accompany the release of her critically acclaimed album. Inspired by the technology and hedonism of the early '80s new wave scene, the album's analogue-oriented songs are a series of stark contradictions - retro in feel but ultra-modern, unpredictable in subject matter yet danceable, approachable yet delightfully menacing. In short, Girl With No Face is completely different from the perfectly tuned, automated forms that dominate alt pop today. This album is special, because it was Allie's first self-produced album.

    Self-irony lightens the album's aggressive mood, especially in songs like You Slept on Me and Off With Her Tits, which are uplifting satirizations of some of Allie X's more troubling thoughts. Beyond the darkness, she still manages to weave the pop sensibility of her characteristically disturbed Disney princess into her songs.

    X is not only a singer, but also a visual artist, so every detail of the production has a perfectly crafted look. The striking album cover, a red, black and white tritone image, features Allie clutching a replica of her own face in a torn papier-mâché with her black gloved hands. Like the music itself, it is perhaps the most immediate and disturbing representation of the artist's identity to date.

     And the strong visual representation will be echoed at the concerts, so not only will you hear the distracted Disney princess sound, but you're sure to be treated to a special sight when you visit the A38 Ship on June 28 for Allie X's first concert in Hungary. Tickets go on sale on 13rd February at 10am for the show.