Hannah Rodgers, the mastermind behind Pixx, releases a third single ‘Andean Condor’ from her forthcoming album, Small Mercies (out 7th June via 4AD / Rhythmethod). A tongue-in-cheek album opener, she muses on gender politics – “mature males tend to be at the top of the pecking order” – inspired by the world’s largest flying bird.
“This song is written about the link between wo/mankind and nature,” Rodgers says. “It is important to recognise how many times women have to face the absurdity of male hierarchy in our modern world. Having had endless conversations with (certain) men who justify the inequality of the sexes by comparing themselves to animals, I thought what better way to help them than to remind those men that they are supposed to be human, with emotional capability and growth.”
The visuals for ‘Andean Condor’ were created by Alice Clingan. Premiered by The FADER, watch it in full below.
‘Andean Condor’ follows the singles ‘Bitch’ and ‘Disgrace’ and are all taken from the second Pixx album, Small Mercies, due for release on 7th June. Small Mercies is a series of poetic examinations of love across the experiential spectrum, from the micro (self-love) to the macro (devotional faith-inspired love, love for this planet), all set to a soundtrack that mixes electronic pop and grungy guitar rock with aplomb. It follows the 23 year-old’s debut album, The Age Of Anxiety (2017) – an unsettling synth-pop record fuelled by Pixx’s own debilitating experience of angst – and 2015’s forlorn and folk-edged Fall In EP. Co-produced by Simon Byrt (who worked on both her EP and debut album) and Dan Carey, it sees Pixx assuming different personas to examine the damage done by religion, gender-based power hierarchies and stereotypes, the tipping point of Earth’s destruction and love.
Small Mercies Tracklisting:
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Andean Condor
- Bitch
- Disgrace
- Small Mercies
- Peanuts Grow Underground
- Funsize
- Dirt interlude pt. 1
- Mary Magdalene
- Hysterical
- Eruption 24
- Dirt interlude pt. 2
- Duck Out
- Blowfish
