Ghosthorse and Stillborn
What:
Ghosthorse and Stillborn
Who:
CocoRosie
On:
Rogue Records / Inertia
Where:
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It's been three years now since CocoRosie's debut album, La Maison de Mon Rêve, set the indie world on full-blown freak alert. Such abashed eccentricity quickly found the kooky, Brooklyn sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady at the vanguard of a nascent freak-folk movement, sharing stages, and beds, with the likes of avant-folk artists Devendra Banhart.
The duo has continued to mesmerise all and sundry with their musical scissor kicks to the status quo, and their recent album, Ghosthorse and Stillborn, does nothing to shake the technicolour coat of craziness. Retaining their trademark, bizarre schiz-outs, CocoRosie have created a wonderfully kaleidoscopic mix. Pulling together an evocative collectionof found sounds, they're rattling things, making things squeak and shaking gold chain belts.
Couple that with some off-kilter arias, hip-hop beats and surrealist wordplay, recalling Beck's Odelay, and you've got one helluva record. The line between genius and nut-job-savant is an incredibly fine one, yet CocoRosie seem to walk all over it with apparent ease.
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