SOFIA ISELLA – Something Is A Shell (EP) – CD

Description

CD EP.

Something is a shell is the latest EP from Sofia Isella. In her 1962 poem Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath wrote, Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / and eat men like air. Its part threat, part revenge fantasy, and part raw confession of the narrators fury toward a patriarchal world. That visceral, ferocious energy is what first drew Sofia Isella to Plath, and its a force she channels frequently in her own music.

Isella doesnt flinch from the horror stitched into the fabric of the feminine experience. Citing writers like Plath Margaret Atwood, and Mona Awad as germinal influences on her lyricism, Isella plunges into the underbelly of expectations of good-girlhood, of valiant womanhood. In her songs she splays out the stakes of it all, plumbing the viscera, unearthing the blood, guts, dirt, and decay lurking beneath.

By the time she hit fifteen, Isellas taste had expanded and grown darker and more mature. Artists like Nine Inch Nails and Tom Waits became a conduit for the kind of raw intensity shed always been drawn to, and gave her permission to push herself to new depths of expression. This is evidenced on her latest EP; That freedom that Reznor et al. endowed to the songwriter are evidenced on her latest EP; Something is a shell . Isellas vocals swing from coolly detached to emotional detonation, often in the span of the same song. She brings listeners into a world colored by feminist hyper-realism, challenging listeners to re-define ideas of femininity, and safety; to see that things are not okay.