Freak Slug makes a delicious splash on "Piece of Cake"

"Such a waste, such a waste of a perfectly nice piece of cake" Xenya Genovese (operating under the aptly zany moniker Freak Slug) opens the latest single of her debut album I Blow Out Big Candles and wastes no time divulging her tongue-in-cheek world of coquettish metaphor. Unshackled by expectation and unafraid to walk her own defiant, if off-kilter, path, Genovese melds 00's feminine grunge with the flow of present day bedroom hyper-pop to create an authentic and avant-garde sonic milieu; sonically spongey music with an integral grittiness.

Speaking of "Piece of Cake", Genovese shares "this is my personal favourite track from the album. I feel it encapsulates the way I swan through life being super cheeky, and just love how the song has a “fuck it all” kinda vibe to it. It’s got that charm I’m looking for in music, with a bit of serious half time, swirled into a cake that I’d happily eat myself actually. Straight forward, you can’t go wrong comparing a gorgeous man to a gorgeous cake. But somewhere it all goes wrong, cos it's not all about how the cake looks, it has to taste good too.”

It may be 90's cult heroes like Mazzy Star and Ride that give Genovese her creative drive, but it is contemporary champions of the carefree that she sonically sits among today: Remi Wolf, Negative Shawdy, Beabadoobee. Repeatedly Genovese highlights her calling card, to make music that “has bite”, that “doesn’t fuck about”, that “cuts the shit." She both emphasises her liberation within her craft, but also in turn uses her songwriting as a vehicle to further her plight to freedom, and it is this dogged determination to live and sing honestly that makes her such a compelling artistic force.