Tirzah - trip9love...??? (2023) [Hi-Res]

Perfection from Tirzah once again with perhaps her most loosely structured and hard hitting album to date, as usual produced by Mica Levi, whose chaotic but deeply schooled energy elevates the material here to genuinely all-timer status, using weirdo reverb and doubled up vocal phasing to turn simple hooks into screwed and unforgettable earworms, surrounded by compressed, almost clipped rhythms (the same beat on every track 🤯) stretched over lilting piano motifs that’ll have u covered in goosebumps from seconds into the thing. You’ll likely then spend hours/days/weeks trying to figure out how such bare, seemingly throwaway components can add up to something so profoundly impactful and unforgettable, before remembering that some music is just inarguably, inexplicably, touched by genius.

“trip9love…??? is the third album from Tirzah, produced by long-time musical collaborator Mica Levi. It was written and recorded at both their homes and various corners of South East London and Kent.

After several recording sessions over roughly a year, eventually the music suddenly came into a sound that they wanted to follow. The tracks were built using piano loops on top of one beat, distortion added, then romantic vocal toplines. Poems centre on themes of love, both real and imagined. The world the record finds space in is a lazy club fantasy zone.

The speed, the connection and similarity between all of the instrumentals led the record to feel like one song, a diary entry of a moment or a fascination with one sound that they felt was important to go with. The nature of trip9love…???‘s release reflects how it was made.”

Tracklist:
1.01 - Tirzah - F22 (3:39)
1.02 - Tirzah - Promises (2:38)
1.03 - Tirzah - u all the time (4:13)
1.04 - Tirzah - their Love (2:33)
1.05 - Tirzah - No Limit (3:02)
1.06 - Tirzah - today (2:44)
1.07 - Tirzah - Stars (3:20)
1.08 - Tirzah - he made (2:48)
1.09 - Tirzah - 2 D I C U V (3:32)
1.10 - Tirzah - 6 Phrazes (1:34)
1.11 - Tirzah - nightmare (3:02)