Another Listen: Energy Whores Release ‘Invisible’
Energy Whores – 'Invisible' (Four Ways)
What happens when you stop trying to find the definitive version of a song and instead accept that the song might genuinely have four of them?
New York artist Carrie Schoenfeld, operating as Energy Whores, has made that question the structural foundation of Invisible (Four Ways), released August 21st: one composition, one set of lyrics, one melodic core, four entirely independent productions that each illuminate a different emotional dimension of the same experience.
The subject at the centre is the feeling of existing in plain sight while remaining unseen: the social transparency of being overlooked, disconnected or erased that most people have encountered in some form and that the four versions examine from four distinct angles. Synth-pop gives the experience a polished immediacy. Lo-fi wraps it in warmth and haze. Cinematic production expands it to near-orchestral scale. Indie strips it back to organic textures and guitar. The lyrics remain constant across all four. Their emotional weight does not.
Working closely with producer, mixer and masterer Grant (NYC), Schoenfeld developed each version as a genuinely independent production: synthesisers, piano, electric guitar, bass, programmed elements and atmospheric textures rearranged from the ground up for each interpretation. The result is as much an experiment in perception as it is a release, asking how much production context shapes the meaning listeners bring to the same words and the same melody.
Schoenfeld's background feeds the project's unusual intelligence: classical piano training at Mannes, work in visual art, directing an independent film before returning to songwriting and production. She creates and directs Energy Whores' visual concepts, treating imagery as part of the same creative language as sound. Previous releases including 2026's Arsenal of Democracy, Fade to Gray and Planet B have placed the project in conversation with Massive Attack, Portishead, Björk, Depeche Mode and St. Vincent.
Four ways of looking at the same human experience. Each one reveals something the others do not…
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