LEXXE is a singer from Long Island, New York who combines her career as a dancer (she has danced in theater, film, musicals and burlesque) with her musical career. With roots in Puerto Rico, Alexis Lucena has been officially releasing music since 2017, and this week her new single, ‘LABYRINTH’ is released. Before that, she has released the EPs ‘Meet Me in the Shadows’ (2019) and ‘Santa Sangre’ (2023) and a multitude of singles.
Among them is the recent ‘Disco Witch’, a pure pop track leaning towards the sound of the eighties that represents LEXXE’s sound very well. It is the Song Of The Day.
Neon synths and larger-than-life melodies populate LEXXE’s discography. Sometimes those synths wrinkle, evoking early 2000s electroclash, as on ‘Santa Sangre’. Other times they plunge into the night, recalling the most tormented The Weeknd, as on ‘High for This (Sweet Dreams)’. LEXXE’s career has not lacked homages: one of his most listened to songs is a revealing cover of Stevie Nicks’ ‘Stand Back’. That’s where it goes.
In ‘Disco Witch’, LEXXE takes to the dance floor and invites the listener to “dance away the pain.” At the same time, the song personifies the dance floor, turning it into a “witch” with powers, and works as an allegory for a night of passion: “The floor can be our dance floor,” “the moon and the stars can be our mirror ball,” sings Alexis.
For ‘Disco Witch’ LEXXE chooses a truly 80s sound, full of bright synthesizers, in one of those euphoric pop songs that seem to want to touch the moon with their finger. Fans of Carly Rae Jepsen, Dagny or MUNA should not miss it.
‘Disco Witch’ is the new preview of LEXXE’s upcoming album, which will be “conceptual” and populated by various “characters,” including this “disco witch.”
