"Porcelain" is the official single from the album "...And All It's Evergreen," which will be released on April 10th. These four minutes of concentrated energy, drive, and musical skill, including the vocals, whet the appetite for what's to come. First up is the opener, "The Villain of the Piece." A relatively conservative-sounding and structured song, with plenty of fuzz and a warm, thumping bass. What elevates this track—and the following ones as well—above average is Bogey Stefansdottir's vocals. "And the Henchman" seems to have sprung from the cosmos of Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane, a fragment that's more about sonic painting than a song. At this point, we find "Porcelaine," followed by the rather jittery, nervous, yet straightforward "Strike, Parry, Riposte," in which the last third is a kind of lounge-style sound collage. How many songs am I on? Four. Ah, now comes "As Dead As They Come," an initially hard-hitting rock track, in which a saxophone and darabukas appear alongside Himalayan-high walls of guitar. "Sclera" seems to peel itself out of a nearly impenetrable cloud of weed and marijuana, only to culminate in an angry, almost grungy finale. And the longer I listen to the vocals, the more Kate Pierson from the B-52s comes to mind. The following song, "Attention Deficit...Something," could also have come from a Pixies album. Then the band shifts gears again, and we find ourselves back in late '60s Detroit proto-punk with the song "Blindfold Marigold," seasoned with a dose of doom. "Northbound" is pure Grrrl-Riot, and this whole stylistic madness culminates in the epic, noisy "Brother, I am starving." Yes, we still have to wait a while for this album, but what I can't wait for is to see this band live.
Or better said: when will we see a female fronted version of System of a Dawn?
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