Search - Emilie Autumn :: Opheliac - The Deluxe Edition

Like Amanda Palmer Over Nine Inch Nails

Lisa M. Mims | Austin, TX United States | 01/24/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is really, really amazing music.



It's probably some of the most technically complex music popular music have heard in the last year, with the possible exception of Amanda I'm-going-to-play-the-Tchaikovsky-piano-concerto Palmer's usual output.



If you were to take a given song on this album apart, layer by layer, the backing tracks are the kind of goth, bass heavy thing heard in rock clubs on nights when the crowd is all painted with corpse white and smoke. The next level up, though is classically trained vocals, classical violin, and what sounds like an Eighties New Wave almost-Depeche Mode-through-Kate Bush-type counterpoint...imagine leaves falling in moonlight through cemetery gates....



....at a very high rate of speed.....



Basically, if you hate goth, techno, and moments of Sarah Machlachlan on Dexedrine, stay far far away. It's sort of like earlier Tori Amos with a drum machine or five.



Also, Emilie Autumn plays the violin like a banshee on fire.



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Okay, I'm in love....

robert croce | 12/24/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

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For me, this is the best music release of 2009 (beating out Tori Amos's Unaturally Attracted to Sin). There is an incredible amount of music here, which comes at you in all directions. Pretty harpsichord, synthesizer, and of course, the Violin. And in Emily's hands, the violin absolutely rocks. (I've heard this described as "Victorian Industrial"). Upon further listenings, I said to myself: "this is what Kate Bush would have sounded like if she had put out a heavy rock album". Spend some time in Emily's world, you won't be bored!"

Truely unique

James D. Mcalear | 01/02/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is seriously the most original stuff I've heard in a decade, and I'd like to think i at least have half a clue when it come to new and unusual music (previous faves include photek, Gary Numan, FLA, Bjork, etc).



Frankly this is the "Goth" music we all heard in our head all along, i think, but no one managed to truely pull all the disparate elements into a cohesive whole till now. Rasputina came close, but didn't really incorporate any of the electronic elements that, to me at least, make Emilie's albums so much more listenable, and musically diverse."