Luce Rushton announces debut EP, Slinky

“This song was originally written in 2017 when I walked past someone who wore the same perfume as an ex” Luce explains. “Sometimes breakups are so overwhelming that all your senses feel heightened in strange and unpredictable ways, and suddenly the smallest reminder of a person can set you off. When you are defenceless against the invisible and painful reminders of what could have been.”

Across five tracks Luce paints a portrait of life as a young queer artist living in the capital at the start of the 21st century. “The word slinky reminds me of the feminine clothes I would feel so uncomfortable in and at the same time the word makes me think of how free and malleable my gender feels to me now” Luce explains about the EPs title. “I am more comfortable with both femininity and masculinity now in a way I never was before and there is a slinkiness between them.”

Growing up in a small town near Manchester, Luce used music as their route out of the town. Buying a £20 guitar from cash converters when they were 15, they developed their amp-less sound on the landing of their parents’ home. Studying Popular Music at Goldsmiths University, they became part of the legendary art school’s music scene, playing in a multitude of bands, not least Girl Ray, Sophie May, Prima Queen and Deep Tan and touring with the likes of Yard Act, Nation of Language, Bodega and The Big Moon.

Tracklist:

1. Night Drive Through
2. Quickly
3. Slinky
4. Tiny Car
5. How It Works