GINA VOLPE
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Prolific NYC-based guitarist/songwriter/fine artist Gina Volpe, is back with Delete the World, her full-length debut as a solo artist. Delete the World is a brooding, textured, experimental web of songs with echoes of indie pop, punk, alt rock and new wave.
Volpe started her storied career in high school when she co-formed the ferocious 90’s punk band Lunachicks with her fellow high school classmates. Over the course of more than a decade, a half-dozen albums and countless world tours, Lunachicks staked their claim in rock ‘n’ roll history replete with a tell all memoir published in 2021 and a new documentary about the band premiering in November 2023.
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Volpe made the leap to singer and frontwoman in the mid 00’s when she launched her thundering power trio, Bantam. Teaming up with producer Barb Morrison (Blondie, Franz Ferdinand) Volpe returned to the studio in 2017 to record 'Different Animal,' her debut solo EP. Diverging from the punk world, Volpe’s solo work has drawn comparisons to the likes of St. Vincent and The Kills. Finding a way to meld a foundation of heavy rock with electronic, pop, and dance beats Volpe reflects her hometown’s all-in ethos.
“...a diverse collection of tracks layered with chunky riffs, pop, and dance sounds” – She Shreds Magazine.
"Volpe, channels modern angst via detuned metal guitars and rattling 808 beats on her new solo single." - Rolling Stone
While Volpe is known for inciting headbanging with her frenetic solos, Delete the World proves that she’s a true musical nomad at heart. Her riffs crunch, soar, and reverberate, delivering flashes of Robert Fripp and David Gilmour while her sultry voice and luring melodies blanket the tracks with a magnetic spark. “When I sit down to write a song,” she says,“I purposely leave out any kind of notion of what it ‘should’ sound like and instead let the pieces fall down from the ether and have the song direct me to where it wants to go.”
Delete the World is a disintegration of not just traditional stylistic borders, but also mental ones. Songs like the title track, “The Plan,” and "Escaped From the Lab" reflect on coping mechanisms gone awry and the unintended consequences, how perception can either cut you loose or keep you confined, and the dubious assumption that humans are in control of anything. "Specks of mold in suits of meat / breakdown / repeat, repeat,” Volpe sings on “Low” while “Until I Arrive” is an homage to creative wanderlust, riding in tailwinds and not really landing anywhere.
The absence of a proverbial map or blueprint might confound some people, but Volpe finds pure freedom constructing in that open space of possibility. And yet on Delete the World, Volpe emerges as a solo artist who’s very assuredly present and ready to go wherever the sounds lead her.
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