EMILIE AUTUMN
Enchant (Traitor Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Can't say I was much surprised by this CD - I was expecting it to be some kind of trippy neo-filk kind of music, and it was. The cover sporting a girl wearing fairy wings and purple hair was a big tip-off. So yeah, there are a bunch of classical instruments on here, like pianos and stringed instruments, and then there are some girly danceable songs, and way too much fairy-tale imagery for me. The vocals try to be deep and soulful but sound more like something written for and performed by an American Idol kid, too forced without the depth of experience behind them, not to mention the occasional lapses of tunelessness and breathlessness that leave even the listener gasping for a comma in the lyric stream.

© 2004 - Holly Day