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Feeling comfortable just in your own skin is a luxury we often take for granted. Sure, adjusting to a problematic puberty is a fairly common experience, as are life-altering eating habits even later on. But where a good chunk of population at least reaps the benefits of a cis-heteronormative construct, the trans community faces struggles even with a sense of belonging in their own skin, let alone within a still-regressive society.
With that in mind, shift your focus to Locuust. Errrr…actually YoursTruuly. Frankly it doesn’t matter, considering it’s the same person: Austin’s Xóchitl who goes by the aforementioned handles as a rapper and producer, respectively. These dynamic double double-U’s might sound familiar if you caught the Song of the Day spotlight on fellow local hip-hop provocateur Free Hamze a couple weeks back. At just shy of twenty, Xóchitl’s alter egos have already proven remarkable maturity, a saga that continues this weekend with their feature-laden debut full-length, Apparent Incoherence.
Apparent Incoherence is a relentless, risqué eleven-song swarm of poignant candor, crushing beats, clever wordplay and undoubtedly a creative A.I. we can all get behind. You can fall in love with the album live when Locuust and YoursTruuly simultaneously takes the stage 11PM tomorrow night at Hole in the Wall for the release show following openers (consisting entirely of Apparent Incoherence guests) CENSORED dialogue, Kardinal Bloo, Chucky Blk, and khxnid!. And on the LP’s sole “leak” “Acupuncture”, Locuust delivers a lyrical plague that grapples with gender dysphoria and body positivity over YoursTruuly’s Alchemist-esque instrumental, which when combined, provide a thoroughly therapeutic experience akin to the track’s title.
So in light of this week’s forecast, like Locuust says…don’t expect it to “rain in the summer”. But you can expect a downpour of multi-disciplinary talent from this young, unconventional up-and-comer as they enter mainstay status here in the Live Music Capital of the World and far beyond.
