The Fabulous Truth is an eight-song suite by composer and multi-instrumentalist Eve Essex, exploring moral ambiguities, life in the shadows, and the possibility of escaping social expectations. This second full-length album is an ecstatic tribute to liberty and an intense examination of the psychological costs of seeking independence in an unforgiving world. Watch “Room With A View” below:
Essex draws on a diverse range of influences, including trip-hop, outlaw country, kosmische, spiritual jazz, avant-garde classical, and musical theater. She sets jewel-like portraits of rebellion against a velvet-black background of stormy electronics and uneasy minimalism.
Scheduled for release on June 21st via Soap Library, “The Fabulous Truth” will be available in digital, cassette, and LP formats—a first for the label. The cassettes come with an embroidered patch mirroring James JA Mercer’s cover artwork.
Following the release of the title track, Essex shares the new single and video “Room With A View,” alongside a summer tour announcement. The haunting, elegiac single is brought to life in an animated video by Andy Cahill.
For tour dates, the new video on YouTube, and album pre-orders, see below.
“The Fabulous Truth” delves into themes of freedom and boundaries, intimacy and security, raising questions about who you let into your life and why. The album features intimate, confessional lyrics with literary flair, set against brooding compositions that evoke long journeys across vast landscapes and continents, wagon trains and ship voyages in pursuit of a new life, and the view from a satellite orbiting Earth at high speed.
The album treats genre with a freewheeling attitude and includes contributions from a wide array of instrumentalists, featuring guitarists jenghis and Luke Moldof, and downtown New York music legend Peter Zummo on trombone and euphonium.