Australian-born, Brighton-based producer and songwriter Penelope Trappes has just detailed the last installment of her trilogy that explores the cycles of birth, life and death. The last piece of her triptych is, in her words, “about healing the stories held in her body by surrendering to universal love.”

“I’m digging up the underworld with visual motifs, and a mystical, gothic darkness that symbolises my struggles” she then added about Penelope Three. “Yet the universal message is that of overcoming our fears to allow the love in. This is the healing.”

The project is introduced today by the other-worldly single “Nervous”, on which she navigates anxiety and vulnerability. The eerie video, that she co-directed with Agnes Haus, could act as a trailer for the next season of American Horror Story.

“In mid 2020 I began renting a strange and unique house in Brighton, but I couldn’t actually move into it for a month, so I used the odd space and time to film this video,” she explained. “It delves inside the mind of a nervous smoking woman, which takes the form of an oppressive strange house. Inside, she is confronting the balance between the masculine and feminine within her, which take the form of two spirit characters. Outside there are expansive but liminal moments of reprieve from the claustrophobia, but she invariably gets drawn back into the anxious loop of her own mental entrapment.”

Watch below and pre-order Penelope Three via Bandcamp.

London based, Australian born vocalist, musician and ethereal sound designer Penelope Trappes has just announced the release of a new EP on Houndstooth. “‘Eel Drip’ is about honouring the dead, the passing of lives within you and beyond you,” she explained. “It’s about physical or emotional change, acknowledging fears, and being true to yourself… reaching your full potential.”

The majestic first single and title track, “Eel Drip,” combines celestial synth arpeggios and eerie vocals. It also comes with an intriguing Agnes Haus-directed video which was inspired by artist Francesca Woodman’s 1970s series of nude self-portraits with Eels.

About the video, Trappes added: “In the process of changing and shedding past notions of myself, there is another world between the past and the future. An eternal state, unknown, warped, slippery, free. Submitting to change, dying… being reborn.” Watch and pre-order the EP via Bandcamp below.