Album Review
Garmarna – “Vengeance ” – [Northside]
Thurston Hunger 9/4/2005 A Library, CD
Haunting neo-traditional sounds, electric
village folk music. Slithering fiddle
music mated with “bleak beats.” Atop it
all Emma Hardelin’s voice soars like a
falcon…hunting for prey. A cool constant
flow of electronic trickery (as if Tucker
Martine was buzzing about) keeps an edge
on an otherwise almost too polished album.
Proud dirge fury. As much as I like the
violins, and the dark clouds of electronics
the source of power here is Emma; you feel
like you are a jagged stone in her mouth
as she sings, rolls her r’s, stretches
her vowels, splits her voice into overdub
harmonies. Swedish Ragnarok’n’rol!
you heard it 25 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 440 days ago, Avakhov played Stomped Bread
- 902 days ago, Milo Minderbender played Vengeance
- 1910 days ago, Hemroid the Leader played Herr Holkin
- 1938 days ago, Hemroid the Leader played Halling Jaron
- 5550 days ago, Art Crimes played Stomped Bread
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