Fauness is a singer-songwriter from London, UK. She describes the music as “fairy rock”, something that combines the ethereal sweetness of fairies with the forcefulness and hardness often associated with the rock genre. It’s an appropriate description for her subversive songs: “Sixteen” is a sugar-coated pill, its lush and nostalgic sound hiding lyrics that are quite the opposite. “I don’t wanna be 16 / When I was 16 I was so fragile and so lonely,” she sings.

“I’m fascinated by sweetness as an aesthetic category,” says Fauness. “We think of the sweet as anodyne, sentimental, predictable, un-interesting – but it’s often the veil concealing things too disturbing and sinister to be confronted as they are.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.