Cape God by Allie X

Cape God is the second studio album by Canadian singer Allie X. It was released on February 21, 2020 by Twin Music and distributed by AWAL. The release followed her extended play Super Sunset (2018), but departed from her previous style and process of songwriting. The album was primarily written by Allie X and James Alan Ghaleb, and produced by Oscar Görres. It received generally positive reviews. Allie X released her extended play Super Sunset in 2018. Cape God was originally intended as a sister record to the EP, though Allie X later decided to split the project into a separate album. She contrasted her approach to writing Cape God with what she had taken for her previous releases. While she stated that her previous releases involved experimentation with "alter egos", Cape God was "a pretty personal, pretty intimate body of work". In an ask-me-anything session on Reddit, Allie X noted that "it was easier to make this record than any other" and that " happened very seamlessly." Allie X drew inspiration for the album from the characters from Heroin: Cape Cod, USA, a 2015 documentary about the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts. She wrote songs from the point of view of one of the documentary's characters, and developed a fictionalized Cape Cod in her mind as a way to reflect on her personal experiences. She met producer Oscar Görres and songwriter James Alan Ghaleb in Stockholm, shortly after writing the opening line for the album's first track "Fresh Laundry". She described her songwriting process as "seamless, therapeutic, and very enjoyable," though she also credited Görres's production for being able to complement her "layered kind of complex lyrics". Cape God was Allie X's first album to feature vocal duets. She began work with featured artists Troye Sivan and Mitski in 2018. ℗ 2020 Twin Music Inc, distributed by AWAL