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Women & Children

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this album is a wonderful surprise and discovery. Haunting ghosts dancing paralyzed around you. This music creates a temperature to settle into. The first song weaves around a sparse melody and chilling lyrics before breaking unexpectedly into a charming piano drum thump. "Headless" is a masterpiece of texture, layered vocals creeping around by the end, distant flute, finger picked guitar and deep bass anchors. I put this on and get goosebumps. The singers voice obviously carries a resemblence to nico if she wasn't so heavy on the german off key accentuation. but even that is just lazy, a new identity comes through strong and original. Something warm and soulful without being anything more than human and direct.
At another point the music turns away from a gorgeous knot of guitar and vocal melody to enter a 6 minute sonic dirge or organ and organic like industrial crack ups.
Wonderful lyrics throughout. each song offers you something differnt; i could go on and on and become less and less coherent but i will simply finish with a loving recommendation to check this out.

I discovered Women & Children's music on a Russian Web site. It was their newer album, but it was enough to make me try to find more. I ended up picking this album up on Amie Street for much cheaper, and it's just brilliant. If I could make music, it would sound very much like this.