Lauren Flax Liz & Lauren EP

Voted DJ Mag's Underground Hero in 2022, DJ & producerLauren Flaxhas been a fixture inBrooklyn's electronic scene for two decades. On her latest projectLiz & Lauren EP, she teams upwithLiz Wightof shoegaze techno duo Pale Blue, whose sultry vocals explore questions of loveand isolation to the tune of Detroit house and acidic techno.Flax and Wight became fast friends in 2021 after being introduced by Pale Blue member & 2MRco-founderMike Simonetti, who'd enlisted Flax to remix Pale Blue's "Breathe." Naturally, whenFlax needed a vocalist for some tracks she was working on shortly after, she knew just who to call."I was in my last year of grad school doing an internship in community mental health helping kidscope with the trauma of the pandemic," Wight says of the time. She channeled this experience asshe wrote and recorded the lyrics to Liz & Lauren EP from her home in Los Angeles.As a result, the lyrics on Liz & Lauren EP are open-ended musings on connection, isolation, andconvention. Lead single "Fix Everything" can be read both as an indictment of the trappingsof marriage or, on Flax's view, a rousing call to action, applicable to issues ranging from thedegradation of the environment to the attack on LGBTQ+ rights in America. As the EP progresses,Wight's airy vocals consider the pitfalls of love, from the destructive power of infatuation to thepain of outgrowing a relationship.