Brazilian-born, Amsterdam-based artist LYZZA has today announced her new EP ‘SUBSTATE’, out May 24th via her platform CLUB LYZZA.
LYZZA released her acclaimed ‘MOSQUITO’ mixtape in 2022 via Big Dada, a medley of club-honed styles CLASH called “an unbridled passion project” and “a formless, globalist experience tapping into maximalist anti-pop, the seedy underworld of mutant techno, and icy reggaeton breaks”.
LYZZA teases her new era with the clarion call ‘Blackball’, a siren cry declaration chiming over a rumbling low end, baile funk flourishes and trancey peaks. Lyrically, LYZZA expresses her ire at the economic hurdles Black artists face in music today. “People want a part of you, but don’t really want all of you,” she says.
LYZZA calls ‘SUBSTATE’ her “vanity project”, and whilst the EP is a self-styled, self-produced dominion, she roped in Emptyset’s James Ginzberg as an engineer to balance fury with poise. “I’ve been reclaiming the fact that I’m actually quite a maximalist,” she admits. “Sometimes it can scare people. James was able to balance it out, to find the gaps within which you can surprise someone with a new thought, a new wave of sound.”
Listen to ‘Blackball’ here.
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Photo Credit: Maureen Muse
