Femme Fatale is for the artists with more than just a pretty face. Time for a new post!

Pleasure. Sexuality. The glare of desire that blurs out everybody else in the room. The look of love at first sight that paints an immediate picture of that one you want to be with regardless of a physical connection. These are all common human themes that feel relatable within the results of Ellka’s latest track ‘Make Me’ which has, over the past couple of weeks, grown on this exhausted music journalist like the wings slowly forming on a caterpillar which turn it into a beautiful butterfly as it manifests over the course of approximately 4 weeks on average. Elkka is the release name for the Cardiff-born DJ/Producer Emma Kirby who is currently making a name for herself on the EDM scene in London. Following years of being widely supported by peers including Four Tet, Caribou, Sofia Kourtesis, Jon Hopkins, SHERELLE and Floating Points, Kirby is set to unleash her first full-length album record ‘Prism Of Pleasure’ onto the public on May 3rd via Ninja Tune. She also won an AIM Award for Best Remix for her work on a ‘Megapunk’ remix, a track which was originally produced by one-woman Emo/Punk orchestra Ela Minus. A 10-track project written over the course of 18 months, ‘Prism Of Pleasure’ is a bold, vibrantly textured exploration of intimacy and identity within the LGBTQ+ community that explores her gradual rise to day-to-day music production as a lucrative career. The cover artwork is rooted in this concept, which features a photograph of Elkka taken by her wife Alex Lambert who is also an artistic collborator that represents the ideology of the female gaze that has always been prevalent in the media. ‘Make Me’ is the sensual and ambitious lead single of the long-awaited album that promises to stand as a token of her personal evolution as an artist. Spin it below.

“Make me love you, make me love you, make me love you” is a hypnotic refrain that reverbarates through the four-to-the-floor rhythmic pattern of the track and, in its straightforward essence, gets the pure pleasure that has rested in Elkka’s mind across to the listener as an emphatic statement of lust and attraction. “Make me is one of the first tracks I wrote for this project. It really sums up the album for me. Its about connection and vulnerability you feel with someone whilst laced with this uncontrollable intensity and pattern“, Kirby has told the press about the single in her promotional materials which makes it clear to her fans that ‘Make Me’ is an emblematic assertion of the album’s main drive. The hefty, continous drum beats and the opaque, substantial synth notes mesh beautifully with the straightforward, fleshy vocals to create the substantial amount of intensity that can be heard in the new, glistening track. At one point, the dense crescendo is relaxed and the vocals have a more disco-esque feel to them that allow a flirtatious quality to merge through the foundations. By the end, it’s clear that a mixture of warm intentions and simple sexuality are rubbing against each other to create a beautiful dance anthem that is so sonically varied that it pulls you in unexpected directions while remaining consistent to its core of displaying pure passion in a romantic situation. Overall, I love ‘Make Me’ due to this zealous and excitable style and while it isn’t hitting you around the head with its LGBTQ+ themes, they feel integral and necessary to the tune in a natural way.

That’s all for now! Thank you for joining me on the recent reunion tour for One Track At A Time after I went on a hiatus and please join me again next week where I will be showcasing another one of my favourite recent releases. Next time, it is coming from a Belgian electronic music producer who has been stepping out of the shadows of a Charlotte Adigery collaboration to shine in his own solo spotlight. I look forward to it!

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