Active in the UK pop-punk underground scene since 2020, Michy Tree has been working on her artistry relentlessly, refining her musical output while catching the attention of huge industry players such as Rolling Stone and BBC Introducing. If her earlier releases were timid attempts at a sonic direction that looked promising, her latest EP ‘Purgatory’ is the realization of that very same vision. Over the course of 6 tracks, the listener is taken through eerie, gritty punk/al-rock numbers (VIP, Nuclear City), poignant and avat-garde-flavoured slow-tempo gems (Red Crane), and more distortion shenanigans (Medusa, Bite). ‘Dead To Me’ stands on a more electronic avenue, championing a heavily distorted bass and robotic, cold drums – which in fairness are a big theme in the whole EP.
Floating on top of this haunting framework, we find Michy Tree’s theatrical vocals, capable of a thousand attitudes shifting from singing to spoken word in a matter of seconds. Very cinematic.
Overall, a good record by the British talent, who’s slowly building a reality we’ll all have to reckon with, sooner or later.
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