London’s Huxlxy is a strange confection: sweet on the surface, quietly corrosive underneath, one of those grinning spirits who slips into pop’s bloodstream and subtly rearranges its décor. His self-styled cartoon blues isn’t so much a genre as a mood ring dipped in ink—jazz phrases curling through trap percussion, children’s-show innocence bent into something sharp, and lyrics delivered with the calm malice of a villain who enjoys watching the fuse burn.
Whet sways on a beat that clicks and coils with a sly rhythm, while his voice moves between taut hip-hop cadence and a folk tint that feels older than the city streets he walks. It’s smooth, sly, and strangely ceremonial—a chant carved from two distant continents and forced into the same breath.
In the video, we descend into an underworld pitched between nightclub glimmer and mythic rot, where Huxlxy appears as a vampiric figure. His eerie gaze cuts through candlelight inside an underground club, gleaming with that near-religious hunger these old monsters carry—the kind that makes the viewer feel both chosen and cursed.
There’s an unmistakable early ’90s goth-club sensibility at work here: velvet seating, idle sprawl, the sense that the night belongs to those willing to linger. Huxlxy’s vampiric presence recalls spaces like New York’s Long Black Veil, where monsters didn’t lunge—they lounged, letting decadence and hunger blur together. It’s a hedonism built on stillness, on watching rather than acting, and the video leans fully into that tension.
He moves through the frame with nocturnal grace, cloak swirling, claws curling at the ends of his fingers like punctuation marks on an ancient threat. The lighting settles into bruised reds and tarnished golds, casting him as something carved from hunger and theatre. The camera treats him as an omen—drifting close, then retreating, as if wary that any extra second might invite fangs.
When the music tightens, the edit cuts faster, pulling us deeper into his domain. Huxlxy glides through it with the calm certainty of someone who has lived many lives and learned to savor them. By the time Whet reaches its final sweep, the viewer is held in place, caught between allure and unease. He invites, beckons, tempts—his vampiric persona part myth, part modern menace, delivered with casual, chilling confidence.
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With this release, Whetting appetites, Huxlxy sharpens his world of cartoon blues into something dangerous and magnetic. The bite feels close. The night looks hungrier. And as he prepares to host and perform at Neckromantic, a new monthly residency at Camden’s legendary Dublin Castle.
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Huxlxy will be hosting and performing at Neckromantic, a new monthly residency at the legendary Camden Town music venue: The Dublin Castle.
- Thu, Jan 8 – London UK @ The Dublin Castle
- Tue, Feb 3 – London UK @ The Dublin Castle
- Sun, March 15 – London UK @ The Dublin Castle
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