KUČKA COVERS CHRISTINA AGUILERA’S ‘BEAUTIFUL’

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KUČKA COVERS CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S 'BEAUTIFUL'
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PRAISE FOR WRESTLING

“Wrestling sounds like nothing else out this year, which shouldn’t be surprising given that
its author is a conduit for the most cutting-edge sounds in the world”

The Guardian

“After huge collaborations with the likes of Flume and A$AP Rocky, producer
Laura Jane Lowther is making an uncompromising statement of her own”

NME

“There’s beauty in the way KUČKA creates her soundscapes;
infusing them with hypnotic rhythms, and also sparseness that can really captivate”

triple j

“The album captures the ecstasy and agony of reinvention, from the turbulence of leaving everyone behind to the excitement of meeting someone new”
Red Bull Music

“Gorgeously soulful and shimmering…intimate and surreal” 
FACT

“A wonderfully opaque piece of digital soul”
CLASH

The Revelation of a Pop Auteur”
Exclaim

Picking up where her debut full-length, Wrestling, left off, Los Angeles-based, Perth-raised electronic pop auteur KUČKA today shares her cover of Christina Aguilera‘s iconic 2002 single, ‘Beautiful‘. LISTEN HERE.

KUČKA subsumes the sob-into-your-hands self-empowerment of Aguilera’s original within her futuristic production palette, exploring pop songwriting that excavates the deepest sense of the self. Where Aguilera’s ballad was characterised by an aching, resilient nakedness, KUČKA‘s reinterpretation draws out the original’s innate bliss, layering cherubic vocals, bouncy, modulated synth plucks that ping-pong around the mix, and gracious pads that ebb in and out like a dawning sense of contentment that slowly overcomes you.

Following years of anticipation built off of her prolific past of collaborations with the likes of SOPHIEFlumeVince StaplesA$AP Rocky, and more, Wrestling finally arrived as KUČKA‘s debut solo LP in April 2021 via Soothsayer / LuckyMe. Self-written, produced, and recorded, Wrestling fused together R&B, jazz, new age, and electronic influences to construct deeply autobiographical stories on growth, love, and journeying, the result of a trying but fruitful transitional period in the producer-songwriter’s personal life.

Spanning love, conflict, sexuality, and maturity, Wrestling presented an honest depiction of KUČKA‘s lived experiences wrapped in a self-assured musical perspective that treads the line between synthetic Hi-Fi and organic DIY, garnering comparisons to fellow electronic-pop visionaries Caroline PolachekThe KnifeBjörk, and more. Praised as “unlike anything else coming out of Australia right now” (Red Bull Music), Wrestling won ravenous praise from across the industry, including Rolling StoneNMEThe GuardianSPINExclaim!BandcampFBi Radio (Album of the Week) and saw KUČKA dominate across indie, pop and electronic DSP playlists around the world.

Beautiful‘ is out now, buy/stream it here.

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