Alias

"Alias" (stylized in all uppercase) is the second EP from London-based artist Shygirl, the EP was released on November 20th, 2020. It features production from her long-time producer & friend, Sega Bodega, and includes production from SOPHIE, Oscar Scheller, Kai Whiston, Happa & Karma Kid, and follows the singles, FREAK & SOPHIE produced, SLIME, On February 9th, 2021, the fourth track, TASTY, received a single release, and remixes from Boyz Noise and LSDXOXO.

Background
The project features production from SOPHIE, Oscar Scheller, Kai Whiston, and Sega Bodega, among others.

It was released through French label Because Music, making it Shygirl’s first release away from NUXXE.

In general, this EP is about fucking. Shygirl playfully contemplates her parents’ failures in her upbringing as she wonders if you “like what you see,” offers her freakiness “on the bed/on the floor,” and name-drops “your daddy,” who’s calling her on the phone right now. It all might come across as gaudy if it wasn’t so fun. Shygirl’s delivery has a dark-horse quality to it; her voice is buttery soft, but she handles lyrics with venomous precision, knowing when to bite and when to soften.

But Shygirl’s music skews darker, heavier, and oozes a very specific kind of sexuality, the kind that usually gets scared out of women by seventh-grade health classes and angry men on the internet. It’s self-indulgent, and it revolves around Shygirl—her body, how nasty she is, what she wants you to do—not any particular lover, and least of all, romance. She offers up brief glimpses into a glamorously dirty life, detailing nights spent “arse up, titty out” and riding in a “fast car/past all the city lights.” There’s an understated line in “Slime,” a song that lives up to its name, slippery with a taunting trap loop running through it, that encapsulates the way that Shygirl so perfectly evokes party culture.

Artwork
The artwork features a mystical face with red lipstick, the face also makes a mark in the singles FREAK, TASTY & SIREN, it doesn't mark a mark in SLIME, just two pirecings with a mystical slime

Singles

 * "FREAK" was released as the lead single from the album released on September 2, 2020.
 * "SLIME" was released as the second single from the album released on October 21, 2020.
 * "TASTY" was released as the third single from the album released on February 9, 2021.
 * "SIREN" was released as the fourth single from the album released on March 15, 2021.

Personnel

 * Shygirl – Singer


 * SOPHIE, Sega Bodega, Kai Whiston, Oscar Scheller, Happa, Karma Kid – Producers


 * Blue May – Mixer