Trot90s : Miranda Sex Garden
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a million moons and one totalitarian dayjob later, i am back with only still my second post in this series. here is a group that my inner conspiracy theorist insists has been sorely ripped off by Evanescence. (the good twin interjects they may be an acknowledged influence.) but hear for yourself. moggers, i give you Miranda Sex Garden.
London-based Miranda... came in the wake of countless female-fronted, goth-influenced groups that had sprung up from as early as the late '70s. the famously namedropped: Xmal Deutschland, The Cramps; the marginally popular: Strawberry Switchblade, March Violets; the barely there, which i would bet have monickers like Lucretia or Suspiria.the group would have drowned in the drivel of Banshee clones were it not that they were just a tad more special than the rest. not in the least because these black-lacey-gloved chicks are in fact madrigal singers. that has got to count for something; voice is a big part of why Diamanda Galás, Elizabeth Fraser, Polly Jean Harvey, and queen Siouxsie Sioux herself command respect way past the goth labelling.Miranda...'s impressive debut, Madra, gave 1991 a wholly a capella collection of songs built upon traditional English verse. from the second to fourth (last) albums, though, they traded off the bare wail with industrial-darkwave. i hear Nine Inch Nails circa Pretty Hate Machine whenever i listen to the latter songs. the group changed members constantly in its decade-long career and last released a full-length in 2000.
the third album, 1994's Fairytales of Slavery, makes me think of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (which i love), for some reason, down to the circusy feel. my favorite off the album (at least, at that time) is really the 8-minute-plus final track, A Fairytale About Slavery, followed by a tie between a hitmaker called Peep Show and this, Cover My Face, which goes something like this:Let me hate for you,and hate for me my face in your eyes.* Trot90s is short for The rest of the '90s
London-based Miranda... came in the wake of countless female-fronted, goth-influenced groups that had sprung up from as early as the late '70s. the famously namedropped: Xmal Deutschland, The Cramps; the marginally popular: Strawberry Switchblade, March Violets; the barely there, which i would bet have monickers like Lucretia or Suspiria.the group would have drowned in the drivel of Banshee clones were it not that they were just a tad more special than the rest. not in the least because these black-lacey-gloved chicks are in fact madrigal singers. that has got to count for something; voice is a big part of why Diamanda Galás, Elizabeth Fraser, Polly Jean Harvey, and queen Siouxsie Sioux herself command respect way past the goth labelling.Miranda...'s impressive debut, Madra, gave 1991 a wholly a capella collection of songs built upon traditional English verse. from the second to fourth (last) albums, though, they traded off the bare wail with industrial-darkwave. i hear Nine Inch Nails circa Pretty Hate Machine whenever i listen to the latter songs. the group changed members constantly in its decade-long career and last released a full-length in 2000.the third album, 1994's Fairytales of Slavery, makes me think of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (which i love), for some reason, down to the circusy feel. my favorite off the album (at least, at that time) is really the 8-minute-plus final track, A Fairytale About Slavery, followed by a tie between a hitmaker called Peep Show and this, Cover My Face, which goes something like this:Let me hate for you,and hate for me my face in your eyes.* Trot90s is short for The rest of the '90s
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