{"id":37908,"date":"2016-11-29T13:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=37908"},"modified":"2016-11-29T13:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:24:26","slug":"tuesday-tunes-a-melodic-and-minimalist-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=37908","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tunes: A Melodic and Minimalist Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peaceful and minimalistic, Alev Lenz’s brand of atmospheric pop is best showcased in her 2016 album\u00a0Two Headed Girl\u00a0<\/em>and has achieved further recognition after her haunting vocals led the finale of this year’s\u00a0Black Mirror<\/i>. Her newest video, ‘Eggshell’, demonstrates her talent in exploring vulnerability and doubt through simple, yet striking imagery.\u00a0Lingering throughout the video is the theme of OCD which complements Lenz’s lyrics discussing fragility. ‘It is a very personal song,’ she says, ‘I am lucky enough that it holds something personal for the hearer too and when Daniel Fletcher [the director] interpreted it through OCD, I followed his lead. He wanted to talk about living with something you\u2019d prefer to live without. Something engrained in our personality that while tiresome, is a defining part of us.’<\/p>\n

Of course, the sense of fragility and anxiety is experienced by almost everyone but few are able to channel this quite like Lenz. Of herself, the singer says that ‘I am sometimes very close to breaking but at the same time very strong…I can take a lot of pressure, in the right spots. The infantile is kept safe by the eggshell that can take a lot of pressure. But is it maybe better to break and in that way to break free and breaking free, what does that even mean?’ Her musings are themselves a reflection of the interior qualities of the song and its theme.<\/div>\n