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The Butcher and the Butterfly >>
Taxidermy >>
While most of horror-rock's practitioners dabble only in blood and guts schlock, Queen Adreena's Taxidermy casts its mind back to the distilled gothic terror of German impressionist cinema--Nosferatu or The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari, where terror is conveyed not through visceral thrill, but through a slowly creeping sense of dread and the slow onset of nightfall. True, sometimes Queen Adreena's bludgeoning guitars trample clumsily all over their black magic fables, as on "Friday's Child" or "Cold Fish"--typical, really, seeing as core duo Katrina Jane Garside and Crispin Gray used to be in overstated panto-punkers Daisy Chainsaw--but such is Queen Adreena's tireless pursuit of the occult that Taxidermy still holds a grim fascination. Look also to the short film on the enhanced CD-ROM, where Garside preens through the lyric "I'm in love with Jesus / I only fuck God" like a blasphemous Polly Harvey taking to the stage in a Berlin cabaret. --Louis Pattison
Drink Me >>
With their frenetic art-rock compared to the best of Jane's Addiction, and their singer Katie Jane Garside described as "Kate Bush on crack", Queen Adreena have been hailed as one of the most exciting British bands in years. And Drink Me--its Lewis Carroll-inspired title promising strangeness and danger--is indeed a turbulent and thrilling affair. With Garside and guitarist Crispin Gray formerly collaborators in Daisy Chainsaw, you'd expect to hear pop of the most manic variety. But Drink Me steps far beyond the affected dementia of the likes of "Love Your Money".
It's really Garside who raises the stakes. Like a latter-day Nina Hagen, her voice slips between the lucid and the lost. "Kitty Collar Tight" sees her echo the rhythmic ranting of Mark E Smith. The closing "For I Am the Way" has her as clear and tiny as Stina Nordenstam, while during "Razorblade Sky" she's sexy-cute then suddenly mighty, like Catatonia's Cerys Matthews. And she freaks out--Man, does she freak out. Yet, whether or not Garside is wildly spiralling up or down, the band still back her with vigour and imagination. Sometimes content to simply provide pulsing rhythms or quietly bleak atmospherics, more often they kick up a filthy grunge-metal racket. High-minded and visceral, Drink Me is a disturbing joy. --Dominic Wills
Live at the Ica >>
Ride a Cock Horse >>
Medicine Jar [7" VINYL] [SINGLE] >>
FM Doll [7" VINYL] >>
Pretty Like Drugs >>
FM Doll >>
Pretty Polly >>