Allie X

Pop savant, multi platinum singer Allie X has just announced her headline gig in The Academy, Dublin on Sunday 26th May 2024. Allie X has been praised for her voice, multimedia artistic endeavours, fan participation, and engaging live performances.

Allie X’s fourth album, Girl With No Face, is a daring excavation of her identity. A maniacal journey into the mind of an artist who just spent three years in isolation, refusing any input as she became the solitary producer, writer and creative voice for the first time in her career. “This record documents an intense struggle for power and control – creatively, professionally, mentally and physically,” X explains. “At times, it felt like I was never going to make it out to the other side, that the process itself was going to kill me.” This isn’t exactly an overstatement, as X (born Alexandra Hughes) did end up hospitalised in 2022, and consequently disappeared from the public eye until recently.

Inspired by the technology and hedonism of the early 80’s new wave scene, the album’s analogue-leaning songs are a series of stark contradictions – retro in feel but ultra-modern in subject matter, pointed, unpredictable yet danceable, approachable while delightfully menacing. In short, Girl with No Face is completely orthogonal to the hyper-tuned, automated shapes that dominate today’s alt pop.