Album Review: Fenne Lily Has Had An Emotional Breach
Fenne Lily’s BREACH is a diaristic, frequently sardonic record that deals with the mess and the catharsis of entering your 20s and finding peace while being alone. If you are in your twenties, as well, then you know it feels like limbo. You have friends, but you feel lonely. You have a career, but you don’t feel successful. You have money and even shop, but you also have students loans and, probably, won’t get social security. Heck! With Climate Change, I am wondering if we will have trees in 10 years. Okay, this got dark, but so does Fenne Lily’s Breach in a very big, transient way.
Fenne Lily – Solipsism (Official Video)
Vocally, Fenne Lily feels like she is falling down a well: distant, dark, and oddly soaring. After all, you only crash when you land, but, before, you are technically soaring: flying midair with no wings and no sense of stability. Does that not sound like being 20 in 2020? Thus, there is strange brightness to Fenne Lily’s voice as she vapes and evaporates notes like a ghost circling the light at the tunnel’s end: should she enter? Can she? For most people in their twenties, life doesn’t seem like it gets better as much as you get better at life.
From “Alapathy” to “Berlin,” the album feels intricately ambient like she drilled screws and bolts into a cloud to make it stay in place, and it actually did. Her ability to match sky and machine in sound is TOTALLY 2020. People want to be both celestial and buried in a song; something that matches how most of us feel happy and sad, all at once. If anything, Fenne Lily uses to her lyrics to unmask the true face of nostalgia: it is not missing what you had but missing what you never got.
Fenne Lily – Alapathy (Official Video)
Throughout the record, from “Elliott” to “I, Nietzsche,” she is making peace with the fact that your dreams stay in your head for a reason: safety. Reality has a way of cutting, and perhaps the best way to overcome its bruising is by letting yourself be okay with being alone. Fenne Lily’s Breach Comes Out September 18 Click Here To Buy.
