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HELEN GANYA YOUNG GIRLS NEVER DIE
As long-standing fans of Helen Ganya's work, we're thrilled to share another intriguing single from the talented Brighton-based artist. Creeping towards the release of polish of the machine, her second extended release for Bella Union, 'young girls never die' is a subtly morbid piece of propulsive dream pop. Provoked by a fairly recent scandal concerning a certain famous actor and the age of his partners, Ganya says: “Someone made a graph of a male celebrity which showed that as he continued to age his girlfriends stayed the same age. This vision kept sticking with me and I saw it everywhere – of the individual girl not allowed to grow, replaceable when she does. All the while our collective insides rot from a lack of full autonomy.” Aurally juxtaposing hard synth throbs with descending guitar parts and Ganya's airy vocals, which echo hauntingly in your eardrums, 'young girls never die' takes an ugly truth and extrapolates the wider meaning of it, taking aim at the toxicity of the patriarchy. Listen and watch the accompanying "deep dream visual" here. -Holly Mullineaux
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