DEVISA,MAL – PALIMPSESA (YELLOW) - TAPE •

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UPC: 634457190375 Label: TOPSHELF RECORDS Format: TAPERelease Date: August 1, 2025In stock items ship within 48 hours Mal Devisa is the songwriting, liberation, and poetry project of multifarious artist Deja Carr. At age 12, Carr began playing music when she and a group of friends started an all-female band called Who’da Funk It? After five years of performing, writing, and recording, Carr began to learn bass as she compiled scraps of her forgotten songs. Based in Amherst, Massachusetts, the solo project Mal Devisa was soon born out of slanted basement walls and busted, dusty kick drums. Starting in 2014 and breaking through with 2016’s Kiid, Mal Devisa’s work spans a self-made spectrum of sound from gravitic, soulful rock to soliloquy to unabashed hip hop. Although known for her unmistakable, smouldering voice and loop-based, bass-forward compositions, Carr’s talents also extend to reaches of poetry and production, paralleled by aspirations to start both a youth foundation and Afrobeat orchestra. The sound is a maelstrom of genre-defiant magic that spans jazz, folk, hip hop, and experimental forms. Carr’s lyrics are cleverly verbose, their delivery like lightning whispering into the haunting DIY spaces where Mal Devisa cut her teeth. Such boundless inspiration and style are central facets of Mal Devisa’s work, whose sonically and narratively unrestrained passages teem with empathy and liberatory visions for a better world. TRACK LIST: You Are My Sunshine Next stop Icarus-Breakthrough Vicious Nonbeliever (ft. Gods Wisdom) New Eardrums (prod. Marco) Dominatrix Old Intro Never See Me Do It Crowd Pleaser The Room is Spinning Contracts Skyline Arms Fire You Are All That You Need To Be Unwilling I Could Tell The Skies Dangerous If You Are Waiting Shomberg Isnt the Place Slept On Rum O Ivory Sunrise (prod. Marco) My Potential Uou Go to My Head Forest Raw as the Hands of the Sun Forget That I Show more