Penelope Trappes – Penelope Three

Penelope Three is the third and final instalment of the Australian-born Brighton-based Penelope Trappes trilogy. She completes her ambitious and other-worldly triptych with an album of healing, on which she looks to release herself from fear and into love, evoked in Penelopes signature ambient gothic dreamlands that are equal parts shoegaze pop and surrealist soundscapes.

The powerful yet fragile lead single, Nervous, blossoms like a flower in time lapse, swelling with reverb and decaying into a dense sound world. Despite formal vocal training in opera and jazz when she was younger, it wasnt until after her daughter was born that Penelope began writing her own music. Now in her 40s, she says coming into music later has been eye opening, and she laments the fact that women past 30 are too often discarded by the music industry: Creativity doesnt go away when you get older, it flourishes, changes, grows like all of life, she says, it amazes me that this is still something for society to wrap their heads around.

Here, on ‘Penelope Three‘, Trappes wears her breadth of life experiences with pride; pain, joy, love, loss, and the freedom in accepting change and acknowledging lessons learnt. It is a celebration of womanhood and a testament to the wisdom acquired through living and allowing oneself to live.

TRACKLIST

1. Veil
2. Nervous
3. Forest
4. Fur & Feather
5. Red Yellow
6. Halfway Point
7. Blood Moon
8. Lucky Eleven
9. Northern Light
10. Awkward Matriarch