home > browse > cd-feature > view article

CD Feature: Van Flower: "Little Fire-Filled Heart"

  Tobias

Tara Vanflowers' music sounds like an a capella soundtrack for a haunted house, or choral music from some kind of church with a big bee for a god, or just the recorded ravings of someone locked in a bathroom  trying to decide whether to drown themselves or not. It's frightening in the best of ways, with some really chilling sorts of echoey sound-effects coming in and out of audible range, like waves of electronic static, broken up by the sounds of knives being sharpened, or cigarette lighters being flicked, or footsteps on a metallic floor; all the while, Vanflower's dreamy, slightly-demented-sounding looped voice singing on and on as though to herself about fish singing, planting people and flowers, and the joy and glory of being a stalker.

By Holly Day

Homepage: Tara Vanflower
Label: Silber Records