The eponymously named Blixie Perestroika is the musical entity of the London-born, half-Scottish songwriter, director and singer. Having immersed herself in multiple worlds (academia, the army, film, animal rescue), Blixie was on track to release her debut EP before a predatory experience with a collaborator/producer changed her trajectory. After years of writing in isolation and unreleased recordings, Blixie found herself picking up the portents of end-of-empire carnage in pre-Trump America and then pre-Brexit Britain, moving to the heart of rural Europe to rebuild a ruined estate - and leave the ghosts behind. In the stone stillness of a medieval town, shuttered in by the pandemic,
disquieting voices demanded release. Lyrically seizing subjects as though just asking the question could heave the ghosts of history and in so doing spill their secrets, Blixie Perestoika’s debut album Ambition is Low is a call for accountability, a scream in the dark and a confession at dawn: a dream not far removed from the acid self-deprecation of Blixie’s heroes, Primo Levi, Stuart Adamson, Sylvia Plath. The album is the work of Blixie and longtime producer/co-writer Jack Dawe, a Chicago native and British born Co-producer Morgan Corbeau. Sonically hovering somewhere between Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Indochine, Siouxsie Sioux and Nine Inch Nails, Blixie Perestroika’s cathartic debut is set for release September 9th 2022.