Pixx Announces Long-Awaited Debut Album The Age Of Anxiety

Hannah Rodgers, the 21 year old musician behind Pixx, has also shared the opening salvo from the album, 'I Bow Down'. Following the singles ‘Baboo’ and ‘Grip’, its technicolour video was created by Natasha Lawes and premiered today.

Released on June 2nd, The Age Of Anxiety is a step forward from Pixx’s first release, 2015’s Fall In EP. A deeply personal document of heartbreak, the singer's four folk-infused torch songs drew early critical praise, with the Sunday Times hailing it “one of the most arresting debuts of the year." The EP led to subsequent tours with the likes of Daughter, Lush and Glass Animals.

Instead of tales of loss and affairs of the heart, The Age Of Anxiety finds Rodgers ostensibly place herself outside looking in. Her twelve-song collection seeks to address a generation increasingly isolated by an unprecedented new world order, from the pressures of social media to ever-changing political turbulence.

This bold debut borrows its title from W.H. Auden’s final poem, charting one man’s quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialised world. Published in 1947, Auden’s six-part rumination on human isolation in the modern age parallels the overarching themes of Pixx’s work some 70 years later.

The Age of Anxiety will be released June 2 by 4AD. Pixx will play at The Button Factory on March 25.

See the video for 'I Bow Down', as well as full tour dates, below.

Full tour dates:

February 28 – LONDON, Birthdays
March 4 – AMSTERDAM, Netherland (w/ Austra)
March 6 – HAMBURG, Uebel & Gefährlich (w/ Austra)
March 7 – WARSAW, Niebo (w/ Austra)
March 8 – BERLIN, Astra Kulturhaus (w/ Austra)
March 9 – MUNICH, Ampere / Muffatwerk (w/ Austra)
March 10 – LEIPZIG, Conne Island (w/ Austra)
March 11 – LINZ, Posthof (w/ Austra)
March 12 – VIENNA, WUK Werkstätten – u Kulturhaus (w/ Austra)
March 16 – LAUSANNE, Les Docks (w/ Austra)
March 17 – BERN, Dampfzentrale (w/ Austra)
March 18 – COLOGNE, Gloria Theater (w/ Austra)
March 21 – BRIGHTON, Patterns (formerly Audio) (w/ Austra)
March 22 – LONDON, Village Underground (w/ Austra)
March 23 – EDINBURGH, Summerhall (w/ Austra)
March 24 – MANCHESTER, The Deaf Institute (w/ Austra)
March 25 – DUBLIN, Button Factory (w/ Austra)
March 28 – TOURCOING, Le Grand Mix (w/ Austra)
March 29 – METZ, Les Trinitaires (w/ Austra)
March 31 – PARIS, Le Trianon (w/ Austra)
April 1 – TOULOUSE, Le Metronum (w/ Austra)
April 5 – LA CORUNA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa (w/ Austra)
April 6 – MADRID, Teatro Barcelo (w/ Austra)
April 7 – VALENCIA, La Rambleta (w/ Austra)
April 8 – BARCELONA, Sala Apolo (w/ Austra)
April 12 – FEYZIN, L’Epicerie Moderne (w/ Austra)
April 13 – LA ROCHELLE, La Sirene (w/ Austra)
April 15 – ROUEN, Le 106 Club (w/ Austra)
April 16 – BRUSSELS, AB Box (w/ Austra)
August 31-September 3 – SALISBURY, END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL