Penelope Trappes Hits North America

U.K. musician Penelope Trappes has followed up her acclaimed 2025 LP A Requiem with a brand new remix LP on Bjork’s One Little Independent imprint. 

Crafted beyond the conventional nature of a standard remix album, Opvs Novum: A Requiem Reworked completely reimagines the album through 10 different interpretations from a spectrum of artists that expands upon the stark nature of the original LP with a menagerie of moods and styles. 

Klara Lewis and Flora Yin-Wong sculpt their tracks into glacial drones, Gazelle Twin and PRIZMA9 heighten the gothic unease, while Midwife and Julia Holter draw out its devotional melancholy into something almost hymnal. Contributions from Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Saint Etienne, Smote, Dania, and Sarahsson underline Trappes’ unique position between sacred lament and avant electronic ritual, transforming her songs into a series of spectral mirrors that refract grief through industrial pulse, haunting ambience, and dream state pop.

Trappes explains; “It takes a collective energy to bring anything to life, and some of my favourite artists came together to bring their own beautifully unique energy to reinvent ‘A Requiem’. I wanted Opvs Novum to feel like an original album with an aura all of its own.

“The 10 artists here exploring these themes of death and grief are humans who have inspired and supported me. It means so much to bring them all together, and I am infinitely humbled by their transcendental creations. I thank you all. As we all comprehend our own collective grief in a world that would rather keep us separated and fearful, I hope this can be a small testament to what it means to reimagine a collective hymnal spirit.”

2025’s A Requiem was a musical service in honour of the dead, a sanctuary Trappes built for herself to explore familial chaos and history. 

“I was looking for an equilibrium between a ‘heaven’ and a ‘hell’,” she explained at the time of release, “screaming out to the wisdom of our foremothers, surfacing and leading me into true strength and beauty. I listened to the sorrow closely. Death is a part of our reality. Inevitable. Omnipresent. But nightmares can be beautiful.”

Penelope Trappes is currently on tour in North America, which kicked off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 27 and runs through June 15, where she wraps in Los Angeles, California, at 2220 Arts. See below for the full itinerary. 

 

Tracklist:

Bandorai (Klara Lewis Rework)

Platinum (Saint Etienne Rework)

Second Spring (Flora Yin-Wong Rework)

Sleep (Gazelle Twin & PRIZMA9 Rework)

A Requiem (Midwife Rework)

Anchor Us To Seabed Floor (Sarahsson Rework)

Red Dove (Smote Rework)

Caro (Stephen Mallinder Rework)

Torc (Dania Rework)

Thou Art Mortal (Julia Holter Rework)

 

Tour dates with Witch Club Satan:

27 May – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts

30 May – CA, Montreal, QC – Fairmount Theatre

31 May – Cambridge, MA – Sonia

02 Jun – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage

03 Jun – New York City, NY – Bowery Ballroom

05 Jun – Pittsburgh, PA – Preserving Underground

06 Jun – Detroit, MI – El Club

 

U.S. Headline Dates:

07 Jun – Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village

08 Jun – Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club

11 Jun – Seattle, WA – Vera Project

12 Jun – Portland, OR – Holocene

14 Jun – San Francisco, CA – 4 Star Theatre

15 Jun – Los Angeles, CA – 2220 Arts