Former bassist of The Chelsea Girl/Nine Black Alps, Lane has broken out on her own with XUP (pronounced Zoop). Mustang bass, drums, and vocals…Lane does it all.
Feed The Wolf Inside is XUP‘s latest offering. According to Lane, the track examines “a primal creature that shape-shifts between predator and prey, and dances between the chase and the kill. It creeps into birth, life, death and all the sick and twisted love songs that fill the deep, dark spaces in between.” Feed The Wolf Inside is the third and final single from the titular XUP album. The song was written, arranged and produced by XUP and was written, performed and recorded at the start of the Covid apocalypse in Manchester at Cherry Vitriol Studios. It is available for digital download and streaming on Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes. The accompanying video (and indeed all her art direction) was self-directed by XUP.
Lane began to record and perform as XUP in London in 2008 before returning to Manchester in 2015. XUP has produced six albums to date. If one reluctantly places XUP in a box, the sharpie label would read post-new-wave and garage… with very, very occasional hints of 90s grunge. “But boxes are for breaking out of don’t you think?” muses Lane. Think Joy Division directing an arthouse B-movie starring Sonic Youth and Patti Smith; a black and bleach-heeled nightmare of hate and cigarettes; a torn and tortured beauty in equal measures. With mesmerising post-Siouxsie grit, and honeyed vocals on a barbed wire bed, XUP conjures menacing angst, gouged by a dead-eyed, sparsely-detached noir.
A fascinating track from XUP.
Stream it on Spotify here.
Watch the video here:
And you can download the track on her Bandcamp here:
Lines on my face tell stories of the years Each wrinkle a reminder of joys and tears I try to…
You wanted everything Except the truth Whitney Mower of They/Live has carved a distinct sound she dubs “womb pop,” a…
Do you think I care and want To please your stupid grotesque fantasies? You hate me wearing suits Just because…
Fear is spreading like a virus Added to the sum In the distance theres an engine It slowly starts to…
Darkwave trio Corlyx is a band that boldly colors outside the lines of traditional genre conventions, redefining the contours and…
They way they tore me apart Like I’m a corpse they wanna ditch They way they sold me for parts…