Any hater might screenshot a line like “I slay the home down, girlypop and bussy cunt vagina” and declare this the downfall of music, however that’s partly the purpose. Recording the music and listening again, even Frax grimaced at a few of her lyrics, however left them in as a result of they spotlight the absurdity of her life. That directness was partly impressed by Kendrick Lamar and Chappell Roan brazenly speaking their shit; different influences are perhaps extra apparent: PC Music, YouTube oddities like Sue DJ.
Beneath its Epic Rap Battles of Herstory floor, two home is the duo’s most heartfelt music to this point. They open up about being harm by narcissists, ex-best buddies, even relations. Fraxiom says they needed to axe a few songs as a result of they had been too overt, which stunned me as a result of some listed here are principally full-on hate-letters, with every little thing however the offender’s SSN yelled out. Misplaced contained in the rattling synth-rain of “everyone’s eyes,” Fraxiom calls out her dad for not recognizing her gender id: “I heard you name Twitter X/I have been trans for longer than that, and I nonetheless do not get respect.” There’s an actual second of catharsis on the ultimate tune, “dumb methods to die,” after Fraxiom recollects a neater, extra harmless time in 2019: pre-industry, pre-food home, when everybody preferred her. “I am a crash out with no id and no integrity, I am a parasite, I am a grifter, I am a—” they yell, earlier than their voice all of the sudden shimmers as they swap to self-confidence and declare that they’re “attempting to personal my freak” over colossal, skybound drums.
You’ll be able to adore or abhor the memes; what makes this album actually hit are these reflections on alienation and self-love that anybody can relate to. “It’s loopy 200 bpm hyperpop, however the songwriting is so good and the lyrics are so actual that it would even be capable of carry tears out of somebody who pays a mortgage,” Fraxiom says.