Opheliac - The Deluxe Edition [Enhanced]

Emilie Autumn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 2009)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: The End Records
• ASIN: B002LHKK00
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,532 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #22 in Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial > Goth
  • #26 in Music > Miscellaneous > Experimental Music
  • #33 in Music > Dance & DJ > Ambient

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Opheliac

2. Swallow

3. Liar

4. The Art Of Suicide

5. I Want My Innocence Back

6. Misery Loves Company

7. God Help Me

8. Shalott

9. Gothic Lolita

10. Dead Is The New Alive

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Thank God I'm Pretty

2. Dominant

3. 306

4. Gloomy Sunday

5. Asleep

6. Mad Girl (Acoustic Version)

7. The Art Of Suicide (Acoustic Version)

8. Thank God I'm Pretty (Shoegaze Version)

9. Largo For Violin

10. Marry Me

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Amanda Palmer Over Nine Inch Nails, January 23, 2010

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Lisa M. Mims (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Opheliac - The Deluxe Edition (MP3 Download)

This is really, really amazing music.

It's probably some of the most technically complex music popular music have heard in the last year, with the possible exception of Amanda I'm-going-to-play-the-Tchaikovsky-piano-concerto Palmer's usual output.

If you were to take a given song on this album apart, layer by layer, the backing tracks are the kind of goth, bass heavy thing heard in rock clubs on nights when the crowd is all painted with corpse white and smoke. The next level up, though is classically trained vocals, classical violin, and what sounds like an Eighties New Wave almost-Depeche Mode-through-Kate Bush-type counterpoint...imagine leaves falling in moonlight through cemetery gates....

....at a very high rate of speed.....

Basically, if you hate goth, techno, and moments of Sarah Machlachlan on Dexedrine, stay far far away. It's sort of like earlier Tori Amos with a drum machine or five.

Also, Emilie Autumn plays the violin like a banshee on fire.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truely unique, January 2, 2010

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James D. Mcalear ""be nice to everone you... - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Opheliac - The Deluxe Edition (Audio CD)

This album is seriously the most original stuff I've heard in a decade, and I'd like to think i at least have half a clue when it come to new and unusual music (previous faves include photek, Gary Numan, FLA, Bjork, etc).

Frankly this is the "Goth" music we all heard in our head all along, i think, but no one managed to truely pull all the disparate elements into a cohesive whole till now. Rasputina came close, but didn't really incorporate any of the electronic elements that, to me at least, make Emilie's albums so much more listenable, and musically diverse.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars okay, I'm in love...., December 24, 2009

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robert croce - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Opheliac - The Deluxe Edition (Audio CD)

For me, this is the best music release of 2009 (beating out Tori Amos's Unaturally Attracted to Sin). There is an incredible amount of music here, which comes at you in all directions. Pretty harpsichord, synthesizer, and of course, the Violin. And in Emily's hands, the violin absolutely rocks. (I've heard this described as "Victorian Industrial"). Upon further listenings, I said to myself: "this is what Kate Bush would have sounded like if she had put out a heavy rock album". Spend some time in Emily's world, you won't be bored!