In some kind of Antony and the Johsons meets Devil Doll, the surprising Austrian girl, Anja Plaschg, better know as Soap&Skin, deliver her debut album "Lovetune For Vacuum" a record rather than depressive, dark and slightly macabre but also full of beauty and emotiveness. 13 songs with a truly dark sound, without chorus nor melodies, in majority of which this young lady, just 19 years old, is accompanied only by her piano played almost all the time in a disturbing and sinister low pitch, occasionally supplemented with electronic effects and strings arrangements. With a pretendedly fragile and delicate voice, Plaschg shapes her interpretations making them sometimes atmospheric and ethereal, barely whispering her desolate lyrics, while in other pieces she sounds openly passionate and theatrical. With songs like "Sleep" or "Marche Funébre", "Lovetune For Vacuum" is a record with a permanent dark and melancholic tone sprinkled with just a few moments of "brightness" in songs like "Cry Wolf" or "Brother Of Sleep." Tense and sometimes distressfully music but with a sensibility as dark as delicious. An excellent debut for this girl. -CORANNIEIT-
Soap&Skin, Lovetune For Vaccum
Play It Again Sam Records, 2009
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