New album
Black Dog from Elizabeth Bernholz (aka
Gazelle Twin) dropped today. Stylistically, she continues down a similar path with experimental, industrial electronic compositions mixed with a lot of darker ambient tones, synths, and some piano. I'm very sure that
Gazelle Twin won't be for most people, but I've been a long-standing fan of her work since 2014.
Black Dog is 11 tracks and spans about 41 minutes. Consequently (or not), this album dropped right before Halloween, and it's quite an unsettling and chilling listen. And Bernholz's voice is very standout on this album. It goes high, it goes low, it's beautiful and slow, it's fast and biting - it seems otherworldly most of the time. I've given it two full listens through and it's surely one of the most unique listens of the year for me. I love it so far, but I feel it's going to require several more listens to fully understand and appreciate. The Quietus wrote a lengthy review of the album
here, and it goes into great detail on the album and gives some of Bernholz's quotes on what the album is about. All in all,
Black Dog will no doubt make it somewhere on to my AOTY list at year's end.