Tirzah

Tirzah is the project of London singer Tirzah Mastin. Her partnership with Mica Levi goes back to their teens, when they met at music school, and their early EPs led to the album Devotion on Domino. Colourgrade followed, with Coby Sey joining the core collaborators, and later trip9love...??? pushed the sound further into loops and repetition.

The records are built from very little: a looped piano figure or a slurred, detuned beat, with her voice recorded plainly and often left unpolished. Songs such as Gladly and Devotion rest on a single line repeated until it changes meaning, closer to private conversation than to a performance.