New York based visual artist and maker of divergent songs Katelyn Farstad, under the moniker Itch Princess, is an odd bird. Like a penguin, a peacock or the unbelievably interesting shoebill stork she is fascinating, curious, sometimes perturbing and defies definition. Obviously I don't know Katelyn personally and I am, of course, speaking or trying to describe her work. Her latest work as Itch Princess is the 2022 fifteen track album "POP CALL PASSES" and the song I am writing about today is situated smack dab in the middle and is called "Someone New". Oh, and before I go on, people who know me, know that adjectives like odd, curious and abnormal are utter compliments.
"Someone New" starts off with warbles and a drunken cadence, pushed along with interesting lead guitar lines, a star and stop bass push and shifting drums. The feeling is sludgy with psychedelic freak folk tentacles and Katelyn's vocal aesthetic captivates as well with unexpected stabbing peaks and valleys which, to me, dips into a jazzy space also moving into dissonant places. Really digging the dance, the jagged thing happening as the music and vocal layers amp up before it all ends.
Katelyn (Itch Princess) plays drums, bass, guitar, synths and sings with additional guitar provided by Thomas Delaney. Katelyn writes, records and produces all of the songs. The weirdly wonderful Official Video was shot and directed by Whitney Weir.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://itchprincess.bandcamp.com/
http://www.katelyn-farstad.com/
Katelyn Farstad lived in Minneapolis from 1988 to 2019.
She currently lives in New York City.
Her visual art is represented by Luis Campana, Berlin.
She makes music under the moniker: Itch Princess
She has a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and attended The Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany for one year in 2009.
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Itch Princess, visual artist, singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, divergent pop, freak folk, alt rock, psychedelic sludge pop ballads, new album, "POP CALL PASSES", Official Video, "Someone New",
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