For the quick pace of the Internet, blogs have been ridiculously slow on giving Brighton's Elizabeth Walling aka Gazelle Twin the attention her work deserves.
I first gave a rave review of her debut single, "Changelings" last November, now we have the follow up "I Am Shell I Am Bone" I'm sure the handful of blog coverage will soon become a snowball of posts...
"I Am Shell I Am Bone" (released as a free download in April via Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records, a Brighton collective of which Gazelle Twin is involved) continues with the black textured yet immersive and creepy eeriness of "Changelings", with a base of dramatic brooding synths and undulating rhythms layered around the ghostly whisper of Elizabeth's vocal creating hauntingly atmospheric, surreal dreamscapes.
An entire demo album, 'The Entire City' can be streamed via Elizabeth's website, go and listen because it gives the perfect summation of the Gazelle Twin project. Highlights include the chilling foreboding atmosphere on "This Entire City", the choral and Dirty Projector-esque harmonised wailings at the start of "Concrete Mother". "Building The Obelisk's" continual melancholic yet overwhelmingly beautiful vocals and some primitive, incessant drumming on "When I Was Otherwise". You get the idea, this is simply divine and disturbing, the songs take you to a fantastical, otherworldly universe creating an ambience of equal parts beauty and dread.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. This is going to be incredible live, conjuring the same dark magic that has made Karen Dreijer Andersson, Anja Plaschg and Nika Roza Danilova all firm-favourites of the gothic electro world, this incredibly well-constructed, innovative project is going to explode.
Listen to the single below:
The previous single "Changelings"
Gazelle Twin - Changelings by Cannonball_PR
A teaser for what promises to be a visually stunning video for "I Am Shell I Am Bone"
I Am Shell I Am Bone Trailer from Gazelle Twin on Vimeo.
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