Stream: Bloodboy, ‘Sex Crime’

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“Punk Adjacent” is what surfer-turned-rocker Lexie Papilion — aka Bloodboy — is calling her “big-girl record.” It’s the title of the San Clemente native’s debut album, due this summer (date TBA), and also an apt description of where she’s gone with her music since she debuted with “Human Female” in 2016 and released her debut EP later that year. The aesthetic is “punk” as Blondie and the Cars were regarded as punk, edgy pop with a strong self-awareness. She says the album is largely about “acceptance: primarily self-acceptance.”

Papilion escaped to rural Louisiana to work on the album, which was co-produced by Taylor Locke, the solo rocker and former Rooney guitarist who has since played with a host of artists. “I always wanted to make punk music because it’s what I grew up identifying with most, but setting out to make a punk record felt a little disingenuous to me,” Papilion says. “I finally reached a point where I wasn’t concerned with fitting any sort of mold. The artists I admire didn’t impose any restrictions on themselves and that was how the punk movement came to be in the first place.”

She adds: “After I finished the record, my best friends and I were joking about the way our moms still try to score ‘cool points’ with us by talking about the punk shows they went to when they were younger. I said, ‘I doubt my mom was really in the scene; she was probably adjacent to the scene’ and I immediately saw the parallel. There may be moments where I get close, but I’m likely never going to make a bona fide punk record and that’s totally fine.”

Which brings us to Bloodboy’s new single, “Sex Crime,” a song about a woman in a cross-generational relationship who ultimately decides that that the object of her affection is too young. It motors along on an insistent guitar riff while the songstress riffs on her date having to be home early. When Mom hears this one, she’s liable to dig out that old crimper and go to work on her hair.

||| Stream: “Sex Crime”

||| Previously: “Hey Kid”