EP Review Flossing - Queen of the Mall
3-5 StarsThere’s an icy new wave heart to much of Flossing that feels out of step with 2021.

Much like her other outfit The Wants, there’s an icy new wave heart to much of Flossing - the solo project of New York’s Heather Elle - that feels out of step with 2021. Full of hard beats and uncompromising metallic crunches, it takes your ears a couple of plays through to relinquish to the cold, leather-clad underground lair that the singer is seemingly operating out of. But once you’re there, ‘Queen of the Mall’ offers a Jehnny Beth-like sense of harsh pleasure. Opener ‘Switch’ throbs along on an industrial bass pulse, its opening line - “I am both scared of and intrigued by the deviant nature of man” - immediately going for the jugular, whilst ‘TRAP’’s punishing drums are not for the faint hearted. Centre-point ‘Add To Cart’’s icy dancefloor strut doesn’t land quite as well as what comes either side, but overall Flossing’s debut is a bold and unapologetic one.
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Her debut EP ‘Queen Of The Mall’ lands today.