Tag: Xexa

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Xexa's vocals are sometimes described as airy or ethereal, but as she follows up the acclaimed Vibrações de Prata with her second album Kissom the native Lisbonite and Guildhall graduate soon sounds warped and comic or even faintly maniacal, crossing the narrow bounds of gender and genre, her straining glottis suggesting a widened mouth and constricted lower jaw. She offers...