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Apr 2, 2025aya has created one of those rare sequels that manages to both outstrip and enhance the ideas behind her first album. Following up an incredible debut with something more ambitious and immediate is hard. Most sequels buckle under the weight of expectation. On hexed!, aya doesn't so much rise to it as tear right through it.
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Apr 2, 2025Deep in its mesmerizing glut are some astonishing works of synthesis. Sound bristles, foams, bursts, and oozes, lashing its acid against aya’s newly ferocious vocals.
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Nov 18, 2025Despite its grotesqueness, there’s something thrilling about it. It’s unlike anything else. aya knows that we’ll happily drink some more
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Apr 2, 2025aya pushes her sound into more abrasive territory here, yet the record’s most crushing peaks come in its sparser moments, be it the haunting coda of peach, or the subterranean drone of the album’s title track.
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Apr 2, 2025hexed! is both a difficult and rewarding listen because it’s such a true portrait of the way trauma sticks to us, even if it’s sometimes dormant.