2016’s “Paper Dolls” is not a minimal release. This release is no longer an exploration.  This release is 11 solid anthematic tracks that can each stand on their own as a single. Long gone is the young girl from 2003 starting a solo project and exploring her sound. What’s left in 2016 on “Paper Dolls” is a confident artist, a mature sound, and some of Jennifer’s strongest songwriting to date, all combined with explosive, ear-candy production highlighting vocals in the midst of AYRIA’s huge beats and synths.
 
Laying it all out there for listeners with lyrical themes of suicide, technology & social media, feminism, abuse, opulence, emptiness, numbness and isolation, with a hint at happiness just so you know that not all hope is lost.
 
For club songs suited for the dance floor, “Underneath The Water”, “Crash And Burn”, “Feed Her To The Wolves”, “Chameleon”, “Not Receiving”. For sexy, moody, mid-tempo electro-EBM-alt-pop, “You’re So Vacant”, “Deconstruct Me”, “Paper Dolls”. And finally, some confident and beautiful slower tempo tracks, lacking on recent releases and reminiscent of the “Flicker” era of AYRIA, “Sticks and Stones”, “Barren”, “Fading From Me”.
 
This release will continue to appeal to fans, as AYRIA’s established and unique genre of female industrial-alt-pop has brought listeners along for over a decade into this world of distortion, bass, melody and melancholy. Jennifer invites you in again, to hear for yourself where she’s been, and where she has now arrived at and conquered.
 
“Paper Dolls” comes here as a special 2CD limited edition box set with disc 2 titled “The Heartless Kingdom” which takes you on a moody ride featuring two more original tracks, some transformed ballad reworks of club tracks, remixes by personal friends Decoded Feedback, Bhambhamhara, as well as some goodies: postcards, stickers, posters.

AYRIA’s hardcore fans: be sure to grab your copy fast since the first 1000 copies of the ltd edition will come out with an exclusive spotted varnish glitter effect on the deluxe box cover artwork…
 
Finally this release also comes out on a very limited LP vinyl edition in absolute fuschia pink vinyl (augmented with a carton sleeve CD version).

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2016’s “Paper Dolls” is not a minimal release. This release is no longer an exploration.  This release is 11 solid anthematic tracks that can each stand on their own as a single. Long gone is the young girl from 2003 starting a solo project and exploring her sound. What’s left in 2016 on “Paper Dolls” is a confident artist, a mature sound, and some of Jennifer’s strongest songwriting to date, all combined with explosive, ear-candy production highlighting vocals in the midst of AYRIA’s huge beats and synths.
 
Laying it all out there for listeners with lyrical themes of suicide, technology & social media, feminism, abuse, opulence, emptiness, numbness and isolation, with a hint at happiness just so you know that not all hope is lost.
 
For club songs suited for the dance floor, “Underneath The Water”, “Crash And Burn”, “Feed Her To The Wolves”, “Chameleon”, “Not Receiving”. For sexy, moody, mid-tempo electro-EBM-alt-pop, “You’re So Vacant”, “Deconstruct Me”, “Paper Dolls”. And finally, some confident and beautiful slower tempo tracks, lacking on recent releases and reminiscent of the “Flicker” era of AYRIA, “Sticks and Stones”, “Barren”, “Fading From Me”.
 
This release will continue to appeal to fans, as AYRIA’s established and unique genre of female industrial-alt-pop has brought listeners along for over a decade into this world of distortion, bass, melody and melancholy. Jennifer invites you in again, to hear for yourself where she’s been, and where she has now arrived at and conquered.

The album is being released here on a very limited LP vinyl edition in absolute fuschia pink vinyl (augmented with a carton sleeve CD version).

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2016’s “Paper Dolls” is not a minimal release. This release is no longer an exploration.  This release is 11 solid anthematic tracks that can each stand on their own as a single. Long gone is the young girl from 2003 starting a solo project and exploring her sound. What’s left in 2016 on “Paper Dolls” is a confident artist, a mature sound, and some of Jennifer’s strongest songwriting to date, all combined with explosive, ear-candy production highlighting vocals in the midst of AYRIA’s huge beats and synths.
 
Laying it all out there for listeners with lyrical themes of suicide, technology & social media, feminism, abuse, opulence, emptiness, numbness and isolation, with a hint at happiness just so you know that not all hope is lost.
 
For club songs suited for the dance floor, “Underneath The Water”, “Crash And Burn”, “Feed Her To The Wolves”, “Chameleon”, “Not Receiving”. For sexy, moody, mid-tempo electro-EBM-alt-pop, “You’re So Vacant”, “Deconstruct Me”, “Paper Dolls”. And finally, some confident and beautiful slower tempo tracks, lacking on recent releases and reminiscent of the “Flicker” era of AYRIA, “Sticks and Stones”, “Barren”, “Fading From Me”.
 
This release will continue to appeal to fans, as AYRIA’s established and unique genre of female industrial-alt-pop has brought listeners along for over a decade into this world of distortion, bass, melody and melancholy. Jennifer invites you in again, to hear for yourself where she’s been, and where she has now arrived at and conquered.
 
“Paper Dolls” does not only come as a regular CD, but also as a special 2CD limited edition box set with disc 2 titled “The Heartless Kingdom” which takes you on a moody ride featuring two more original tracks, some transformed ballad reworks of club tracks, remixes by personal friends Decoded Feedback, Bhambhamhara, as well as some goodies: postcards, stickers, posters.

AYRIA’s hardcore fans: be sure to grab your copy fast since the first 1000 copies of the ltd edition will come out with an exclusive spotted varnish glitter effect on the deluxe box cover artwork…
 
Finally this release also comes out on a very limited LP vinyl edition in absolute fuschia pink vinyl (augmented with a carton sleeve CD version).

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AYRIA, the ultimate icon of female club industrial, teams up once again with heavyweight producer Sebastian R. Komor. Their artistic chemistry to produce the kind of unique alternative electro-pop that sounds both big, gritty and beautiful all at once, shall definitely continue to capture new breeds of fans around the globe crossing genres!

This new EP features 2 original anthemic tracks that could each be a single, as well as a heavy club mix of “Underneath The Water” by music partner in crime, Sebastian R. Komor and finally mellowing out with a moody, glitchy alternative version of “Feed Her To The Wolves”… The first track “Underneath The Water” hits you immediately with a giant synth line, a strong EBM kick and a powerful clap snare that pierces through you. This track is the epitome of slick electro-pop with modern production and features Jennifer’s vocals taking you from pretty, to chant-like and into an epic chorus that memorably swells up to a something that will be stuck in your head for days! The Second and title track “Feed Her To The Wolves” has epic electro-pop appeal and is reminiscent of previous AYRIA tracks such as “Girl On The Floor” and “Disease”, even slicker flowing with melodic catchy choruses, and danceable beats.

This digital EP preludes the upcoming 2016 full length release “Paper Dolls” with songs that will continue to appeal to fans, as AYRIA’s established and unique genre of female industrial-alt-pop which has brought listeners along for over a decade. AYRIA being now a 12 year veteran, has proven her sonic style and exploration into the darker side of alt-pop, is here to stay! Jennifer Parkin once again invites you into her sonic world of distortion, bass, melody and melancholy. AYRIA strikes hard, confirming that she’s is back!

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A detonating blend of conflicted influences of both grunge and electro. “Missed The Mark” on the other hand reveals the most pop-oriented side of AYRIA with multi-layerd vocal pre-chorus, a catchy as hell chorus section, and powerful synth leads and instrumentals…The best sad dark pop song ever written by Jennifer Parkin!

The remixers featured on Jenn’s new EP release do not only come from some of the big bands in the electro and industrial scene, but are above all, all very meaningful to her personally, being friends or artists she’s been touring or working with in the past.

PROJECT PITCHFORK add their unique signature sound to “Missed The Mark”, a band AYRIA has already toured with. Sebastian R. Komor who again produced the new AYRIA album transforms “Plastic Makes Perfect” into an impressive massive club assault.

Daniel B. (of PROTHESE, FRONT 242, etc.) returns with a new remix for AYRIA with this moody, textured and minimalistic rework of “Plastic Makes Perfect”, a subtle version with an addictive driving urgency behind it that helps diversify the styles on the EP.

UK new talents DIMENSION FLUX will blow you away with their DJ-friendly mix of “Hunger” combining big draggy synth lines and big club beats.

Last but not least, label mates JUNKSISTA created a wonderful electro version of “Missed The Mark” that captures a very cool retro 80’s electro vibe while creatively layering the vocals to achieve a new mood in the song, while finishing up the mix with full out guitar leads for a perfect end to the EP we just want to play again and again…

AYRIA is back – let’s celebrate!

This EP is only available as a download via Bandcamp (see player below).

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1. Burden
2. Forever More (EM Acid mix)
3. Power Down, Restart
4. Forever More (Virulent Club mix)
5. Shattered (EM Trance mix) 
6. The Road To Hell (Edit)
7. Safeguard (EM Alternate mix)
8. Burden (EM Backbreaker mix)

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On this new CD “Plastic Makes Perfect”, Jennifer Parkin challenges herself once again and steps outside of the genres she’s comfortable in, exploring more textures, denser production, more diverse songwriting and song structures. And once again, AYRIA confirms she is all over the map like she has always been, and definitely not for single minded music listeners…She invites us into her open heart and asks you open your ears and mind to share in her every emotion.
This new album has songs that will work for your different moods. Listen to “Hunger” or “All That Glitters” when you’re angry, or sick of the world and feel beaten down or small. For club DJ’s, put on “Friends and Enemies” or even “The New Style of Riot” if you want an unrecognisable AYRIA track to play! If you’re ready to sing along to electro-pop, listen to “Missed The Mark”, the very sexy “Games”, or “Three Months”… And if you just want to dance “Big City Lullaby” or “Big Plans” will do the trick. If you’re happy “The Box Under My Bed” or have hit rock bottom “Letter From an Angel” should keep you there…

“Plastic Makes Perfect” reveals an array of genres: some electro-pop, some harder industrial or EBM, or whatever you want to call it, some guitars, even a moody ballad… But what strikes the most is that it displays an artist with more confidence, more fun, more maturity, and still some silliness and sexyness at times to make AYRIA what she is all about!

Since we do not change a winning sonic combo, she also again worked with talented Sebastian R. Komor for the production guaranteeing strength and an “in your face” vibe to the sounds while giving her voice the perfect production twist… On her 4th AYRIA album, our favourite Canadian female artist explored the full spectrum of her moods, laid all her feelings out for you, and offers an honest and highly diversified melodic album she can be very proud of… 

This CD is also available as an extended bonus tracks download – see the player below.

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CD1

1. Reinitialized
2. Forever More – feat. Kristy Venrick of The Azoic
3. Double Trigger
4. Safeguard
5. Shattered – feat. Martha M. Arce of Distorted Reality
6. Concentric
7. Ghost Partition
8. The Road To Hell – feat. Eric Oehler of Null Device
9. Red Alert
10. Break Formation
11. Burden – feat. Ned Kirby of Stromkern
12. Adapter
13. Destabilized

CD2

1. I Linearized It
2. Forever More (GASR remix)
3. The Road To Hell (Null Device remix)
4. Double Trigger (In Motive remix)
5. Forever More (Virulent club mix)
6. The Road To Hell (Le-Rav remix)
7. Power Down, Restart

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1. Reinitialized
2. Forever More – feat. Kristy Venrick of The Azoic
3. Double Trigger
4. Safeguard
5. Shattered – feat. Martha M. Arce of Distorted Reality
6. Concentric
7. Ghost Partition
8. The Road To Hell – feat. Eric Oehler of Null Device
9. Red Alert
10. Break Formation
11. Burden – feat. Ned Kirby of Stromkern
12. Adapter
13. Destabilized​

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