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This CD's cover looks strangely reminiscent of an Angela Carter story compendium – and the music shares some of the dark fairytale quality of Ms Carter too. Featuring the clear bell-like vocals of Latvian songstress Vic Anselmo, we are first greeted with "Who" and the line: 'I've no time for being happy all my life'. She's not likely to be a pop puppet, or even a Stepford Wife. There are echoes of All About Eve's "Scarlet" in here too, I'll eat my hat if it's not in Ms Anselmo's CD collection somewhere.
The quiet mood is broken by a crashing of guitar riffs for "Put Your Spell On Me", oh the heady early days of love, the intoxication, the delirium, the dizzying excitement... if only it lasted forever (well it can if you put this tune on eternal repeat.) Sadly, like Titania, when it wears off, sometimes what you're left with is an ass, such is life. "I Cried" is a thoughtful tribute to Dimebag Darrell, one of the founding members of heavy metal band Pantera who was murdered onstage in 2004. 'How could somebody just dare to put out your flame?' "Deadman Walks" is decidedly spooky; big doomy drums, percussion and an organ, how gothic! Whispery, ethereal vocals follow, and we learn that Jack the Ripper is the song's subject matter. 'His cold grin makes his victim paralysed', be careful, be very careful... 'Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.' – Langston Hughes |
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