Miss Red drops the visual to the track PRAYERS, taken off her recent EP THE FOUR BODIES, produced by The Bug

‘Prayers’ features not the fiery dancehall toasting, nor the darkly menacing lullaby style, or the post-apocalyptic dub dread for which Miss Red is commonly known, but instead is a haunting ambient piece, with cavernous reverb that’s sonically closer to the likes of Tim Hecker or Fennesz. Barely-there whisps of vocal tones float like smoke in the air, used as another form of subtle coloration, rather than something literal and prominent.

Following the knockout of last year’s bashment punk full-length album ‘K.O.’, Miss Red’s ‘The Four Bodies’ EP is the dynamite emcees first transmission of 2019. Ranging from warped Druggaton swing to toxic dancehall, via dusted doom-hop, ending with a neo-classical drone, the four songs featured here are a testament to her versatile mic skills and determination to locate her own, original path, whilst obsessively improving her vocal craft.

And just as she has amassed gushing praise from extremely disparate artists in radically different genres, counting Equiknoxx, Dominick Fernow (Prurient), Flowdan, Aaron Turner (SUMAC), Grandmixxer and Logos amongst her new found fans, so the wilful eclecticism of this new EP finds strength in its perpetual mutations and mood shifts. Again she collaborates with her label boss and close ally The Bug, who provides all four backing tracks for this elusive, shapeshifting single, which again appears on the uncompromising producer’s PRESSURE label.

Lyrically, Sharon Stern aka Miss Red wanted to tackle taboo subjects and internal conflicts, to contrast inner/outer, real/unreal states of mind, as she examines the essential elements of life. Metaphorically probing air (‘Prayers’), water (‘Don’t Text Back’), fire (‘Loco’), and earth (‘Shut in your Head’), the red gyal reaches deeper and darker than she has gone before in her writing. Citing shamanism and witchcraft as new found inspirations, she sought to construct her own, singular, planet of wonders and madness.

Having witnessed the surreal spectacle of the cast of the hit NBC/Amazon TV series ‘Hanna’, spitting her lyrics to the ’Shock Out’ anthem from ‘K.O.’ within a memorable episode of the show, or ripping the heads off ravers deep inside a mountain once used by Nazis as a WW2 bomb shelter at this year’s high profile Elevate Festival (Miss Red being mentioned as one of the highlights of the event by Mixmag, DJ, and The Quietus), 2019 is proving as unpredictable as it is inspirational for Miss Red. Her recent relocation to Portugal from Berlin and the total head trip that is ‘The Four Bodies’ are her latest diary entries, from perpetual travels into strange new lands.

In a league of one, with no obvious peers, this pioneering sing-jay is feverishly spreading the gospel of originality, with this free-spirited EP.

Miss Red – The Four Bodies EP via iTunes/Spotify
Tracklisting:
‘Shut In Your Head’
‘Loco’
‘Don’t Text Back’
‘Prayers’

The Bug feat. Miss Red live:
13th July: Kiev
18th July: Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
10th: August Boomtown Festival

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