A one woman band for those who enjoy the dark and the eccentric, Amelouk’s uniquely hypnotic experimental dark wave tracks are loaded with oddities and absurdities to pique the interest of the weird and wonderful. Looping together strings of hypnotic samples with rather off the wall beats, her style is wholly her own with no real parallels to draw as equivalent. ‘No Appetite’, her first release, sees two progressive electronic tracks that are strangely trance inducing in style and substance. There’s a brooding bassline that feels creepy, eerie, and ominous throughout the opening track ‘Cocktail’.
Amelouk delves into themes of heartbreak and pain across both pieces on this EP. Passion Sour is explicitly about heartache, taking into account the feelings and emotions of being painfully obsessed with someone and being completly overwhelmed by this infatuation that it starts to break who you are down. Cocktail is a flourish, a whole smorgasbord, a palette loaded with strokes and colours all around. Amelouk wrote the lyrics in a detached sleep-deprived and slightly hung over mood while mulling over failure in music and in love.
There’s a rainy day, grey sensation across both tracks on this record. It feels morose, it feels inherently sullen, but it also feels so wacky that you’re slightly detached and discomforted throughout. An experimental record for the eccentric.