Brooklyn duo sidestep folk clichés
After the recent deluge of folksy revivalism it’s refreshing to hear two women sing simple songs free of Wicker Man references or Devandra Banhart’s psychedelic mysticism. Unlike her punk partner Christy Edwards, presumably responsible for the more threatening gothicism of ‘105 & Rising’, Emily Manzo is classically trained and drapes their haunting twilight serenity with uncluttered string arrangements and intriguing instrumentation like the mournful bassoon on ‘Gueen’s Head’. Long delayed by record company politics, Superstition is largely the sound of Mazzy Star sat round a campfire, and its imminent follow-up, already recorded with Faust’s Hans Joachim Irmler, promises much.
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