Modern Woman
Johnny's Dreamworld
80--85点相当
いい音出してるんだけど、
このバンドでなきゃという
これぞっていう決め手がないかなぁ。
イギリスのオルタナティブロックバンド
モダン ウーマン
1st
Johnny’s Dreamworld, the debut album from English alt-rock band Modern Woman, isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s a screeching, squealing, whirling hurricane of sounds and emotions that is both raw and theatrical in its sensibility. Comprised of lead singer and primary songwriter Sophie Harris, violinist/composer David Denyer, drummer Adam Blackhurst and bassist/sax player Juan Brint-Gutiérrez, the group has a distinct post-punk sound with a dark Ren-faire flair that is carried by Harris’s acrobatic and complex vocal stylings.
The opening track, which the album is named after, sets the album off on a good start, with a high-tempo cymbal-heavy rhythm section that sounds like the kind of march you’d hear in an evil circus. But it’s the second track, “Neptune Girl,” that really establishes the musical identity of the album. It’s a mongrel of a song, with a bouncy guitar riff that feels almost something from the B-52s, but Harris yelps and whispers all over the track in a Bjorkian fashion, keeping the listener guessing every second.