Penelope Trappes: A Requiem

The experimental singer and composer on punk, paganism and patriarchy

Penelope Trappes is “goth to the core”.

In the second half of the 2010s, the Australian-born and UK-based artist wrote and released a trilogy of solo albums layering ghostly, dramatic vocals over dark ambient soundscapes.

Since then, she released two more projects – Heavenly Spheres and Hommelen, the former being a minimalist suite of piano and vocal vig…