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LA VAMPIRES MEETS ZOLA JESUS - LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus

2010 (Not not fun)
crimson wave, lo-fi goth
by Francesco Nunziata
6

Questi scarsi venticinque minuti di gotiche visioni sanciscono la comunione di intenti tra Zola Jesus e Amanda Brown, quest'ultima co-fondatrice della label Not Not Fun e già attiva con i progetti Pocahaunted e Topaz Rags. Fosche, spettrali, inquietanti: le trame dell'iniziale "Bone Is Bloodstone" non mentono, ponendo le due signorine nell'angolino più buio delle odierne chanteuse. Un ascolto non indispensabile ma, comunque, intriso di un suo fascino esoterico. La musica procede evocativa e sorniona, con un forte retrogusto "dub" a spingere queste perfide elegie verso le profondità più nere. Tra i deserti fantasmatici (con voci dissolte a mo' di nebbia) di "In The Desert", i tratti di jazz inacidito di "Searching", la tromba inabissata nel vuoto di "Vous" e la Julianna Barwick all'inferno di "Eulogy" si consuma l'ennesimo, arcano cerimoniale di quella pseudo-scena detta "crimson wave".

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07/10/2010

This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Francesco Nunziata, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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Tracklist

  1. 1. Bone Is Bloodstone
  2. 2. In The Desert
  3. 3. Searching
  4. 4. Vous
  5. 5. Looking In
  6. 6. Eulogy
  7. 7. No No No

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