SLEAP-E
HEAR NEW TRACK ‘NO JOKE’ HERE
NEW ALBUM ‘8106’ OUT ON 22 MARCH VIA BRONSON RECORDINGS
Italian singer-songwriter Sleap-e will release her new album ‘8106‘ on 22 March via Bronson Recordings.
Today she shares ‘No Joke‘, another vibrant little gem of “bossa cat-punk”. She explains: “The bubbly energy of this song is the same I have when I decide to leave a situation that is limiting or harming me. For me “No Joke” is pure joy and liberation”.The buoyancy of “No Joke” counteracts situations where Asia felt out of step with the world, an outsider and self-proclaimed “weirdo” disinterested in falling in line with what’s expected of her. “It’s about deciding to not sacrifice yourself and your value for something meaningless,” she explains. “It’s perfectly in line with the soul of this album and project: the desire to explode in a raw, free, authentic way.”
LISTEN TO ‘NO JOKE’ HERE
Previous single ‘Leave My Bum Alone‘ captures Sleap’e’s frivolity like lightning in a bottle. With runaway guitars and her vocals cresting and dipping as if on a rollercoaster, it arrives as an explosion.
Sleep and leap. Two diametrically opposite verbs, a moody tension that perfectly represents the soul of the project, now a (meow power) trio.
New album ‘8106’ captures the spirit of play; the child-like instinct to pursue what you love without compromise – and here it is, that particular magic that rarely survives adulthood, remarkably intact. Each of its eleven songs is sharp, vibrant shards which, when you step back, build a mosaic of Asia Martina Morabito’s world: the growing pains of your early twenties, remaining faithful to your dreams despite the hostility of adulthood, places of escape both real and imagined – and the pulse of Bologna, her home and north star.
As a student of old-school iconoclasts like The Fall and inspired by the outsider streak of Jimmy Whispers and Daniel Johnston, it was not any particular musical quality of theirs that Asia wanted to channel in Sleap-e, but their confidence to “explode in a raw, free and authentic way.”
‘8106’ is Sleap-e’s most raucous, unpolished and playful offering to date, steeped in the influence of “egg-punk”, an internet-grown genre which seeks to satirise the tropes of punk with its danceable irreverence. There is joy to be found, Asia feels, in refusing to conform, and it has brought her closer to herself than ever before.
WATCH ‘LEAVE MY BUM ALONE’ MUSIC VIDEO HERE
