ART OF FABLE

A singer who should not exist, drawing illustrations for a fable that is never told - ART OF FABLE, the full-length album by Xione, is bound like a book of fables: nineteen tracks, and no printed text anywhere. A power grid holding up a near-future city, a comet that never comes back, a love that arrives half a beat late, a voice with no native register. Each song stands alone as a single plate, while one line runs through every page: whatever falls outside the spec is not a defect. Built on a core of high-speed EDM, the sound ranges across odd-meter electronica, an English-language dance tune and a nylon-string guitar instrumental, with five ORIGIN REMIX tracks - early-form songs rebuilt with her present voice - all mastered to a single reference so the record reads straight through. The craft of telling fables, the plates that illustrate them, and the art a fable makes when it starts to sing: open it by any reading and the same question waits on the last page. A fable with no text completes itself inside whoever listens.