NAKED are Agnes Gryczkowska and Alex Johnston, a London-based duo engaging with noise, industrial, experimental and extreme forms of electronic music. Their recent EP— Total Power Exchange — released on Halcyon Veil, uses the sounds of sex, vomit, and noise to create a spine-crushing noise hybrid with Salò-birthed vocals.
NAKED’s live performance is an integral part of their practice – it penetrates, caresses and obliterates all senses. Raw, primordial and uncontrolled, yet ephemeral and highly emotional, their live presence is characterised by the extremity of vocal and sonic deliveries, Agnes’s confrontational destruction of the boundaries between performer and audience and shifting between masochistic and brutal to submissive and fragile.
Prior to their last release, NAKED released an alternative national anthem for DAZED which followed the release of their debut album and a collaboration with Mykki Blanco. They have performed at Unsound Festival; CTM Festival; MONOM 4D Sound, Berlin; SXSW; RBMA; Serpentine Galleries; Cafe OTO; St John of Hackney, London, with Merzbow and Thurston Moore, amongst other venues, and have recently completed their first Asia tour.
NAKED have been included in the 2018 DAZED 100 and are SHAPE Platform 2018 artists. They are currently undertaking a residency at Somerset House, London. Their work has been featured in DAZED, i-D, Nowness, Wonderland, FACT, Pitchfork and BBC Radio 1 amongst others.
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