New Karen Felixx: Colorless Girl

Loud and crushing can be just as good as anything else. Producer Karen Felixx’s Colorless Girl runs with this hypothesis, and comes out with a solid album of heavy — but still making way for moments of melodic escape — tracks. Numbers such as “Dark Love” and “So Sorry” pile up on distorted elements — both feature fuzz-covered percussion along with harsher synthesizer notes — and let them pound away. But Karen Felixx also knows to include passages that offer somewhat of a break, or show flashes of catchiness among the noise. It all builds to “Twinkle Star Toys,” Colorless Girl’s one moment of twinkling release and prettiness. Get it here, or listen below.