Description
£16.99 – LP
Although love lives at the heart of Hannah Rodgers‘ second Pixx album, it has little to do with romance. Small Mercies is absolutely not a heartbreak record, nor is it a celebration of new love, or sisterly call-to-arms or vengeful catharsis. Instead, it is a series of poetic examinations of love across the experiential spectrum, from the micro (self-love) to the macro (devotional faith-inspired love, love for this planet), set to a soundtrack that mixes electronic pop and grungy guitar rock with aplomb.
Small Mercies follows the 23 year-old’s debut album, The Age Of Anxiety (2017), an unsettling synth-pop record fuelled by her own debilitating experience of angst, and 2015’s forlorn and folk-edged Fall In EP. Co-produced by Simon Byrt (who worked on both her EP and debut album) and Dan Carey, it sees Rodgers assuming different personas to examine the damage done by religion, gender-based power hierarchies and stereotypes, the tipping point of Earth’s destruction and love.
Tracklisting:
A1. Andean Condor
A2. Bitch
A3. Disgrace
A4. Small Mercies
A5. Peanuts Grow Underground
A6. Funsize
B1. Dirt Interlude pt. 1
B2. Mary Magdalene
B3. Hysterical
B4. Eruption 24
B5. Dirt Interlude pt. 2
B6. Duck Out
B7. Blowfish