Kevin Bronson on January 11th, 2019

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Singer, songwriter, dancer and dystopian narrator Alina Cutrono has unveiled the next chapter of her avant-pop explorations: SILENTSHOUT, her new project with producer-composer Theo Karon. But Cutrono, who released an EP as Alina Bea in 2016 (Karon was a co-producer) and once was a core member of the band Body Parts, spent last year taking care of some important business before she moved on musically. She and Karon constructed their own recording studio, Hotel Earth.

It’s an apt name for a place that births music with an unearthly amount of angst and agitation. SILENTSHOUT’s dark, experimental synth-pop takes cues from Kate Bush and Bjork, as heard on the the new single “King of Nothing.” It’s a percolating lament about feeling powerless that could also be read as a song about abuse: “You can only hurt my body / In my mind I’m far from here.”

“When you grow up, you experience a fair amount of disillusionment,” Cutrono says. “For us in this current era, in which every single day brings miserable and terrifying news about the state of the world, the disillusionment we feel is far more extreme than we expected it to be. ‘King of Nothing ’ is about feeling hopeless in the face of a power-hungry and indifferent world. It’s about that sheer panicked state, when you feel like the world is ending and there is nothing you can do to fight the forces bringing it down. And you just want to give up.”

SILENTSHOUT’s debut album, “You Will Learn,” will be out later this year.

||| Stream: “King of Nothing”

||| Also: Stream “Kid in the Headlights”

||| Live: SILENTSHOUT plays the Moroccan Loungeon Sunday night, along with Tolliver and O Future. Tickets.