FAIRYTALES OF SLAVERY

Miranda Sex Garden - Fairytales of Slavery

"How long have you been lost down here? How did you come to loose your way? When did you realise that you'd never be free?"

The repetition of those lyrics above during a sad long track makes you lose the perception of time. Similar to the feeling portrayed on the album concept . How intelligent.

Fairytales of Slavery is the third full lenght release from this female vocal lead band, and honestly, here is where they achieved perfection. It was a great surprise. I got this album right after listening to their a capella debut, and with the first track I thought it would be another average-good post punk album. An agressive change looking back to Madra, their first album, from 1993. But it's deeper than that. Following the album, Fly, the second track, enlightened my curiosity for the rest of the album. Have you heard of CRANES? One of my all time favorites, their thrilling, breath taking album Wings of Joy is some kind of eternal unique piece. And that's what Miranda Sex Garden came offering with this title. The vocals are almost morbid dream apparitions. Fairytales of Slavery slowly moves more and more to an avant-folk ethereal, dark atmospherical gothic realm of claustrophobia, where the industrial/noise rock kicks send us to a medieval imprisonment torture opera. As the entrapment feel and grief approaches reality to the listener, haunted dissonant crescendos appears and levaes as ghosts of your own hallucination. Listening to the complete piece works as a concept album to a imaginative mind as mine. The musical texture describes mood and environmental changes and suggests different states, from lonely moments, when time seems frozen by your fear, to a thrilling escape as we heard on Transit, and so on. Among all those things, the undoubtful climax of the album is the last and the lenghtiest track, called A Fairytale of Slavery (the obvious main song). Nine minutes of painful beauty, feels like reading someone scars of hopelesness. It gives me chills all over my skin. A must have.

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