Lotic Power

Limited edition vinyl, 1000 copies pressed. Including an exclusive, vinyl only track called
'Burn a Print'. Power is the debut album from Lotic, an expansive exploration of the
many ways in which power can be expressed and experienced. Those familiar with
Lotic's two 2015 EPs - Heterocetera (Tri Angle) and Agitations (Janus) - will trace a
warm-blooded evolution: Power retains the Berlin musician's inquisitive intensity, while
mining the depths of nuance like never before. Across its 11 songs, Lotic stretches
their wings into unexpected new spaces, both compositionally, and, for the first time,
vocally. "Hunted," quoted above, returns the colonial gaze with an arched eyebrow and
a hushed chant in one of the more pop-leaning moments on the album. "Distribution of
Care" pulls Lotic's rigorous club aesthetic into a symphonic context, pairing strings and
drums in a wordless questioning of society's priorities. The playful "Nerve" serves up
an icey hip-hop beat over which they invoke their H-Town roots while issuing a
warning. And, of course, there couldn't be a sonic exposit ion of power without its
most generous manifestation: "Heart" is a love ballad that finds Lotic and NON
Records's Moro, the album's sole guest, trading vulnerable verses. "It originally started
as an empowerment album," says Lotic. "I felt that I needed to offer something outside
of myself, as sort of a healing moment. And then I lost my apartment. Mentally, I could
only work on music once every three months or something. The question of what
would be empowering - the answer to that changed so often over a two-year period. I
had to figure out who I was all over again. With this record, I went back and
incorporated all of my musical selves." Lotic was born in Houston, and studied
electronic music composition and saxophone at university. They moved to Berlin in
2012, where they helped form the Janus club collective. In 2015, they were
commissioned to create two remixes for Bjork's Vulnicura, and subsequently were
invited to be the opening act at her live show in Berlin. Power is grounded by Lotic's
love of Texan marching bands - "Beats and drumming are so integral to black culture,"
they explain - and was in part inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between The World And
Me. Per a recent announcement, Lotic's pronouns are they/them.