'PrinCess Pit' by Lucifer Sky
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Some music lies so far beyond my capability to describe it to others that stressing myself in a fruitless attempt to do so is not a great idea.
I've long since established through previous reviews that Lucifer Sky falls into such a category but that in no way lessens my desire to at least bring to your attention the release of her latest album 'PrinCess Pit' so you can experience it & process it with your own skillsets.
As I've said before, it's admirable that someone should carry out these experiments in sound and since they connect with others on record & live, they are successful ones. It's just that if the vocabulary exists to reflect the outcomes then it's unknown to me. This really is music to experience & make of it what you will without necessarily having frameworks of reference or cultural expectation to guide you: which of course in theory is how music should be enjoyed. It's just the reviewer who can't cope & since our role, however well meant is also intrusive between artist & audience then that isn't terribly important I suppose.
In this case, we have Indira offering us half a dozen tracks, ("PrinCess", "When I Am H****y", "Saint Valentine", "Fun In The Jaws Of Death", "You And I Are Not The Same" and "Pink Moon" (not, unless I'm greatly mistaken, a Nick Drake cover)
That the album is dedicated "to all the beautiful people in my life who have given me a reason to carry on living. I love you immeasurably" may offer extra clues to intention beyond the individual titles (as do the taglines of "Stages, waves, it's never really over" and "Art is Forever. Noise is Forever") though such is the dissonance & vehemence of much of the music that I can't class them as love songs as such: though I totally respect the right of people to experience love in the ways told here: or to express it these ways. You may very well do so yourselves.
The only other credit is for mastering (plus mixing "Pink Moon") by GENDERISTHEBASTARD which collaboration again offers some insight into the aims of 'PrinCess Pit' (is that pun I see there intended I wonder?) and of the respect in which Indira is held.
