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Voted DJ Mag's Underground Hero in 2022, DJ & producer Lauren Flax has been a fixture in Brooklyn's electronic scene for two decades. On her latest project Liz & Lauren EP, she teams up with Liz Wight of shoegaze techno duo Pale Blue, whose sultry vocals explore questions of love and 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 & 2MR co-founder Mike Simonetti, who'd enlisted Flax to remix Pale Blue's InchBreathe.Inch Naturally, when Flax needed a vocalist for some tracks she was working on shortly after, she knew just who to call. InchI was in my last year of grad school doing an internship in community mental health helping kids cope with the trauma of the pandemic,Inch Wight says of the time. She channeled this experience as she 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, and convention. Lead single InchFix EverythingInch can be read both as an indictment of the trappings of marriage (Inchwill this ring / fix everythingInch) or, on Flax's view, a rousing call to action, applicable to issues ranging from the degradation 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 (Inchwe break hearts / we ruin lives') to the pain of outgrowing a relationship (InchI don't want to hurt you / Even if I'm not in loveInch). The thematic evolution maps onto the two-year period over which these songs were crafted Inchat first the lyrics I wrote were born from a place of isolation and fear,Inch Wight muses, Inchin comparison to the last song [Return To Love], written... in a vastly different headspace.Inch Sonically, Liz & Lauren EP feels
