Cosey Fanni Tutti, the pioneering artist whose work has consistently challenged boundaries across music, visual art, and literature, returns with 2T2, a deeply personal nine-track album that transforms recent upheavals into transcendent electronic exploration. Released on limited white vinyl, this latest work stands as both sonic autobiography and testament to the transformative power of creative resilience. Composed, performed, and produced entirely by Cosey Fanni Tutti, 2T2 moves fluidly between propulsive beat constructions and expansive electronic meditations, continuing the thematic threads established in her highly acclaimed 2019 album TUTTI. The album emerges from a period of profound personal and global turbulence, with Cosey channeling bereavements and collective trauma into a work that centers on inner strength and self-determination.
"Once you get creating and listening, weaving, collaging sound," she reflects, "it's a wonderfully fulfilling feeling that takes you both out of yourself at the same time as essentially deep within."
The album's architecture reflects this duality – one side rhythmic and driving, the other contemplative and ambient – unified by an overwhelmingly positive energy that speaks to Cosey's remarkable ability to alchemize darkness into illumination. This structural approach echoes her multidisciplinary practice, where threads from recent projects including her book RE-SISTERS and her score for Caroline Catz's film Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes weave through the sonic tapestry. Most poignantly, Threnody serves as a dedication to Delia Derbyshire and Andy Christian, an artist friend who sent Cosey an abstract drawing of the same name. The piece originated from an improvised evening where Christian drew while Derbyshire intoned and sang softly, reading his visual work as if it were a score expressing her emotional response. This cross-pollination of visual and sonic expression exemplifies Cosey's holistic creative vision.
As a founding member of the hugely influential Throbbing Gristle, one half of electronic pioneers Chris and Cosey, and as an artist who has fearlessly channeled her experiences across multiple mediums, Cosey Fanni Tutti's work on the margins has consistently reshaped the mainstream. From her debut solo album Time To Tell (1983) through her Penderyn Music Book Prize-shortlisted memoir Art Sex Music (2017), her practice forms what she describes as "a totality of vision."
The artwork for 2T2 reflects the album's concept as a "sound cameo," capturing the light within the music and the vital buzz that animates all of Cosey's work – a fitting visual accompaniment to an album that finds profound hope within complexity.
