indie pop singer/songwriter beccs has released her highly anticipated EP, stay moist co-produced by beccs, Godfrey Furchtgott and Jack Mullin, featuring a range of collaborators including Oscar Nominated Ian Chang of Son Lux and long standing queer pop icon, Bitch. Through beccs’ unique flair for humor, vulnerability and whimsy, each track on stay moist reflects and confronts difficult and shameful parts of oneself. By allowing pain and trauma to move through us like water instead of getting lodged inside, we can all ‘stay moist’ as a way to remain honest, authentic and glistening through our healing.
In celebration of the EP, the queer artist will be partnering with Shag…A Sexy Shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for a free stay moist EP release pop up pride concert and Q&A on Saturday, June 29 at 3pm with special guest Kendra McKinley. SHAG x beccs will also launch their merch collab with stay moist surprises galore. Having been featured on The BUILD Series with Monet X Change from RuPaul’s Drag Race for her queer-inclusive Christmas music video, “Before This Christmas Ends”, beccs radiates with pride, radical self acceptance and self love.
stay moist is a bold, edgy, colorful indie pop record filled with maximalist pop production, show-stopping vocals and some serious earworms. Serving as a bridge across eras, EP stay moist features songs written as far back as 2018, revisited and recorded as a symbol of the artist’s personal and sonic growth. beccs had coined the term stay moist during the pandemic when she would find herself crying as a form of release. To bring levity and a sense of connection to these episodes, she would take a snotty selfie and post it to her Instagram grid with the caption “stay moist”. What started as a coping mechanism in isolation soon turned into a motto of resilience, motivation, growth, and of course – whimsy.
The artist shares, “To stay moist is to let life’s pains, events, traumas move through us like water instead of getting lodged in our bodies. Each song is a side road into a difficult, shameful part of one self, that once embraced, leads us back to our whole self. With whimsy, humor and love, I hope these songs help you stay moist.”
Tracks like “Jealous Bitch” featuring feminist force Bitch (collaborations include Transparent’s Jill Soloway, Ani Difranco, Indigo Girls) can be heard as a dark, chaotic alternative pop track with sparks of humor and horror. beccs explores the dilemma between her feminist values and her own primal jealousy as she invites listeners into the reflective and subversive world of being a jealous bitch. beccs’ antidote to that frightening dilemma is fully and comedically embracing her inner jealousy in her maximalist Y2K pop track.
The EP’s previously released single “Rage In My Veins“ is a brave reckoning with our collective grief and rage. Both a confession and a call to break free, “Rage In My Veins”, featuring drum production by Ian Chang of Son Lux / Oscar nominated for Original Score on Everything Everywhere All At Once, speaks to a powerful force that, when channeled, can be used to break harmful cycles and heal. Full details can be found here.
With the release of “f 0 0 d”, beccs takes the stigmatized topic of disordered eating and addresses it under the guise of a cool, textural alternative pop track. The song is an ode to the grief, hope and uncertainty of letting go of life’s pacifiers. Full details can be found here.
Watch the official music video for “f 0 0 d”:
stay moist Track List:
Good Comin’
I Don’t Do Fun
Jealous Bitch
f 0 0 d
Rage In My Veins
This colorful and edgy record is truly dynamic and uniquely beccs. Tracks like “Good Comin’” and “Rage In My Veins” show the craft of a songwriter in her prime, taking struggles that often connote shame and bringing universality to them with hooks that leave listeners humming long after the song’s end. Stream stay moist now.
