GABI GARBUTT - Radical Love GABI GARBUTT

Gabi is an androgynous queer artist creating lyrical alternative pop with a punk spirit. Gabi’s poetic lyrics are imbued with a magical realism; they are sensual, raw and visually expansive, reflecting their love of the poetry of Audre Lorde, Federico Garcia Lorca and Andrea Gibson, and the surrealist art of Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington and Joan Miro.

On the new album Gabi explores how love, creativity and wonder can rupture systems of oppression and instead cultivate new connections and perspectives, releasing a radical love that brings us closer together and closer to nature. They weave this together with intensely personal themes such as queer heartbreak and inherited trauma, and they write about their experiences of manic depression in a way they hope will make others feel less alone.

Gabi’s lyrics are always rooted in a belief in the power of the human spirit and a social consciousness instilled in her at an early age, being the daughter of a Chilean refugee. Gabi’s musical choices add emotional intensity whilst also giving their lyrics space to breathe and recline in the ears of the listener. Whilst the music broadly can be described as alternative pop, depending on the theme it sonically shifts between emotive, sparkling, dreamy synths, the raw energy of punk and acoustic intimacy.