MUREX RELEASES DEBUT SINGLE “MASSACRE” OUT NOW VIA YOUNG
Swedish artist Murex releases her debut single, “Massacre” via Young. Self-produced in Murex’s Stockholm studio, “Massacre” is a piece of ethereal, amorphous, avant-pop that thrashes and glimmers in equal measures. Simultaneously brutal and beautiful, the song depicts hunger and the act of dragging oneself into destruction.
Artists making pop music today are expected to calcify as one easily consumable version of themselves, or capitulate wildly to the capricious algorithm. Murex is already an accomplished songwriter, propelling the work of women challenging those constraints their way. In her own work – deeply informed by storytelling and Nordic folklore – she resists the pressure to over‑define or over‑explain. It’s a protest, but also a tribute “to the countless versions of a person that exist all at once,” shifting the focus away from herself and her body as the face of the work.
She does, however, still appear in the accompanying self-shot music video and photography, albeit part-obscured, while her intricate, emotive pencil drawings grace the artwork. “It’s not about disappearing or being anonymous,” she says, “more about loosening the grip of appearance, and letting the work exist without being defined by it.” On “Massacre” we’re introduced to Murex as an artist uninterested in easy definition – and just beginning to reveal her world.
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