Playful and Complex
A delightful solo debut album, this is all to do with Angel
Deradoorian’s voice and the many complex vocal structures she builds around
this. Her singing is clear and pure, folky rather than bluesy or rock, and she
builds layers of additional vocal around this constant core, from obvious
harmony to choric orchestration. Komodo,
for example is operatic in the clustering of sound, whilst Your Creator is a playful pop ditty with quite simplistic singing
and songcraft in dramatic contrast. The opening A Beautiful Woman has a merging of such playfulness and complexity,
another simple melody with cascading vocal harmonies to enliven its effect. The
second and title track is one of the more ambitious, percussion and chants and an
eventual mashing of sounds keeps it interesting. I particularly like the
dissonance and crisscrossing voices of later Dark Lord; even later The Eye
is quite experimental, reminding of Bjork at times, but then that would be an obvious
touchstone for describing Deradoorian’s approach. Closer Grow begins in a conventional folk vein before venturing into more
psychedelic territory.
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