{"id":46746,"date":"2025-09-16T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/king-princess-leaps-into-the-unknown\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:50:50","slug":"king-princess-leaps-into-the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/king-princess-leaps-into-the-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"King Princess Leaps Into the Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tMikaela Strauss\u2019 third album as King Princess<\/a> is the product of a tumultuous period \u2014 the 26-year-old broke up with her relationship, her label, and her residence in Los Angeles in a short period of time, resettling in Brooklyn before diving in to process what she\u2019d been through and prepare for whatever might be next. Girl Violence<\/em>, the result of that introspection, announces Strauss\u2019 new chapter with songs that bloom and twist around themselves, echoing the fear and delight and increasing clear-eyedness that came along with each fresh experience.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cNobody mentions that girls could be violent,\u201d Strauss murmurs on the opening title track, digging in her heels as a relationship is clearly falling apart, its synth-borne ghosts already coming to life. When its beat does finally kick in, she becomes introspective, her half-swallowed alto repeating \u201cAnd I guess it\u2019s true love\u201d like a mantra before uttering her reasoning \u2014 \u201c\u2019Cause it truly fucks with me.\u201d In a way it\u2019s a continuation of \u201cLet Us Die,\u201d the romantic-apocalypse cliffhanger that ended her 2022 album Hold On Baby<\/em>; but it also shows how Strauss has changed since then, becoming more self-preservationist even as she\u2019s thrilling in the idea of the unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Girl Violence<\/em>, Strauss drenches her songs in feedback and languor, adding heat to her expressions of desire and comfort to her feelings of anxiety. \u201cJaime\u201d stretches out schoolyard sing-song, turning it into a scrawled mash note to an impossibly hip chick (\u201cIf you told me I\u2019m cool, I\u2019d collapse,\u201d Strauss confesses, her voice breaking as ominous drones rise up). Some of the album\u2019s best moments come when Strauss musses up New Wave\u2019s gelled perfection, creating songs that possess an Earth-swallowing hunger: \u201cCry Cry Cry\u201d is a synth-pop kiss-off that recalls Night Time, My Time<\/em>-era Sky Ferreira where Strauss rages at a frenemy who took the latter part of that love-hate portmanteau a bit too far, while \u201cSlow Down and Shut Up\u201d turns long-distance dirty talk into cause for a triumphant closing-credits anthem.\u00a0Girl Violence<\/em> is the sound of Strauss figuring things out, with any answers she arrives at being illuminated by the openness to herself she\u2019s cultivated along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n


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