Creative polymath Kenzie TTH falls down the rabbit hole as things get dark on "Losing Sleep"

The first release from the Boston-born, London-raised vocalist and songwriter since her 2018 debut EP Dark July, "Loosing Sleep" is certainly darker that its predecessors. Interpolating more trap influences, Kenzie's distorted vocals match her lyrics as she begins to unpack and reflect on a period of her life where she was isolated and alone.

Kenzie sounds exasperated and desperate from her predicament, even a trip to Paris to couldn't solve her problems, she gets to the point where a good night's sleep is not even the end point. The chance of her haunting dreams are not worth possible respite as she tries to keep her eyes open with coffee and the background noise of the TV.

She explains "it's somewhere betweena zombie state and fever dream, in a moment when I was spending a lot of time in my bedroom for various reasons, only really going places via the memories of a twisted, almost-relationship that constantly probed in my mind. It’s that place where all you want to do is sleep to escape reality, but dreams only drudge up those memories, so you’re left in this weird state of limbo.”

Accompanied by its trippy visuals, co-directed by Kenzie and Above Ground, her bedroom becomes the centre of a mind-bending, surrealist world from which there seems to be escape. This evocative expansion of the song really reflects the strange things your sleep deprived mind can conjure. “I couldn't tell you if I was sleepwalking through Paris with the monster of my ex, or just caught in a hallucination from sleep-deprivation," Kenzie adds. "This was our version of going down the rabbit hole.”

Having undergone a creative rebirth, Kenzie TTH is ready and raring to share more of her abstract and imaginative takes on pop structures. Encorporating experimental electronic, hip hop and R&B threads into her growing sonic catalogue, Kenzie is all about freedom of expression.