Kid Moxie for the release of her fifth studio album Better Than Electric due out this spring on Pasadena Records.
Kid Moxie is Elena Charbila, an established track record as a composer, producer and recording artist. Under her moniker, Kid Moxie’s cinematic pop music creations flourish as heard on her latest single “Shine,” released on February 24. Look for “Shine” to appear on Better Than Electric.
“Shine” is a dark and evocative club banger, co-written and produced by electro artist Faderhead during a quick two-day session the two had last summer in Hamburg. The video is a glossy nod to Robert Palmer’s “Addicted To Love” with a queer twist with Kid Moxie, an LGTBQ artist, at its center.
“When Faderhead and I started writing the song I was definitely channeling some Depeche Mode vibes and I even made a joke that Dave Gahan should be singing this,” shares Kid Moxie. “The line ‘I’m taking a ride with my best friend’ kept circling around my head and then I decided that this song is indeed about a drive these two girls are taking only a bit more sinister cause it ends up with them having sex in the back seat of the car.”
Check out “Shine” here:
Having left Greece as a teenager to study in San Francisco, classically trained Elena Charbila took up the bass while in college, played with a number of bands, and eventually wound up as a musical accompanist to, of all people, superstar crooner Michael Bublé. A chance encounter with a can of Moxie Cola accelerated her notion of creating a permanent musical alter-ego – and Kid Moxie was auspiciously born. Eight years on, and her accomplishments include collabing with legendary composer Angelo Badalamenti on a cover of “Mysteries of Love” (From David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, and premiered by Vogue), writing songs for soundtracks (Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk), television commercials (Victoria’s Secret) and video games (Cyberpunk 2077), becoming an in-demand incidental composer, and releasing four critically well received albums under her intrepid nom de plume.
Mostly stuck in her current Downtown Los Angeles home during the pandemic, she used the time to create, releasing the dreamy, quarantine-inspired single “All Day Long I Think of You” last summer, and revisiting her striking cover of Alphaville’s “Big In Japan” with an exhilarating new remix by Dave Audé this past spring. Though all the time she was also relentlessly working a collection of new material, driven on by a single phrase “Better Than Electric” which would become both the lead single—a collaboration with British producer MAPS (view its video here)–and the album’s title.
Look for Better Than Electric to arrive June 2022. It promises to be a genuinely career defining moment for the singularly talented young songstress.
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