KUČKA — Heavyweight

Listen / pre-order → KUČKA - Can You Hear Me Dreaming? Out Fri 12 July “Heavyweight has a devil-on-your-shoulder quality to it. That cheeky voice telling you you’re the champion (of your own delusions).” Can You Hear Me Dreaming? showcases what KUČKA does best: laser-cut electronic production and irresistible pop songwriting. The album indulges in fantasy, slipping out of the autobiographic writing of her previous releases, and into other people’s stories. Working collaboratively with her wife, Dillon Howl, the pair dreamt of alternate lives, scenarios, characters surviving, loving, crying parallel to us. Emotional voyeurism is the term Lowther coined herself to describe the act of watching the strangers who surround us, and projecting our stories onto them. A heartfelt Rear Window, if you will. She explores the far reaches of her “cartoon brain”, riffing on a personal moodboard of everything from surreal creatures and rainy cityscapes to tattoos