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Best known as co-vocalist of the superlative goth band Lycia, Tara Vanflower strikes out on her own with This Womb Like Liquid Honey. Lycia frontman Mike Vanportfleet is listed as having mixed and recorded the disc, but anyone looking for a Lycia sound-alike project won't find it here. Instead you'll find what sounds like an exploration of Vanflower's inner musical child. But liquid honey it's not: though her ethereal voice is the only constant, it's often thrown against a melange of self-consciously kooky sound effects and dissonant sheets of both synthesized and organic sound. This marriage of beauty and the beast has worked f
Best known as co-vocalist of the superlative goth band Lycia, Tara Vanflower strikes out on her own with This Womb Like Liquid Honey. Lycia frontman Mike Vanportfleet is listed as having mixed and recorded the disc, but anyone looking for a Lycia sound-alike project won't find it here. Instead you'll find what sounds like an exploration of Vanflower's inner musical child. But liquid honey it's not: though her ethereal voice is the only constant, it's often thrown against a melange of self-consciously kooky sound effects and dissonant sheets of both synthesized and organic sound. This marriage of beauty and the beast has worked for other bands (see early albums by His Name Is Alive and the Cranes), but Vanflower takes it a bit over the top, Syd Barrett-style, and while it can be an interesting listen from an experimental standpoint, it risks tedium at every turn. That means that for each successful, engaging song (the exotic title track, the gothic-industrial "Bugbear," the darkly playful "Black Fuzzy"), we get a failed eyeball roller (the spoken-word messes "Little Bleu Cherry Girl" and "Talitha Koum," the overlong, painfully high-pitched instrumental "Elephant"). Vanflower certainly has some fine ideas here--just not an album's worth. --Steve Landau
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Manufacturer: Projekt Records
Release date: 24 August 1999
EAN: 0617026009322 UPC: 617026009322
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