With nods to Prince and Anderson .Paak, the Californian’s funky soul-pop is as lurid as her videos
While she begrudgingly refers to her trippy, kaleidoscopic musical melange as “funky soul pop”, 24-year-old
California musician Remi Wolf isn’t a huge fan of genres. “I don’t believe in labels like that, though, because they literally don’t make sense any more,” she told i-D earlier this year. “Everything is soup.”
Pinpointing all the references on last month’s heady second EP I’m Allergic to Dogs! (the follow-up to 2019’s debut, You’re a Dog!) would be nigh-on impossible anyway. Lyrically inspired by failed relationships, mental health struggles and, on the excellent Woo!, feeling everything at once, it zigzags between peak-era Prince, early MIA and the cosmic genre-hopping of recent collaborators Little Dragon.