Fielded

Fielded is the music project of Lindsay Powell, a Brooklyn-based singer and producer whose music has never sat in one place for long. Started in Chicago in 2010 as a noise project, Fielded began as a way for Powell to move on from earlier indie twee work and gradually took shape as something more singular and personal. Across more than 20 releases, Fielded has built a catalog that follows instinct rather than genre, with a voice that’s always powerful, whether delivering emotional and explosive pop ballads or singing spells over hip-hop production. Along the way, Powell has collaborated with artists including billy woods, E L U C I D, Pink Siifu, and others, while also spending years in experimental performance spaces, touring internationally through museum and gallery contexts including The Guggenheim Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof, Frieze, and Art Basel. Her new work is in conversation with her noise beginnings and her 2012 album Ninety-Thirty-Thirty. It’s direct, chameleon-esque, and her lyricism continues to pull no punches. Fielded has described the music as “nihilistic gospel” and “late 90s femme Lilith worship,” but more than anything, it reflects her refusal to subscribe to any rules or genre. Her new music lives in abrasion and contradiction: elegant and explosive, cutthroat and poised, noisy and whimsical.