This girl's presence is undeniable. Her sweet sounding folk style is belied by an undertow of someone suspended between nostalgia for the past, and uncertainty before a glimmering future. Hers are songs of hope shot through with darkness, bright love serenades drawing shadows behind them. Justine Electra's blue-toned voice is an instrument of extraordinary versatility and power: it sings, drawls, lures and drowns the listener in a world of glistening perfection where the delicious and the danger...
This girl's presence is undeniable. Her sweet sounding folk style is belied by an undertow of someone suspended between nostalgia for the past, and uncertainty before a glimmering future. Hers are songs of hope shot through with darkness, bright love serenades drawing shadows behind them. Justine Electra's blue-toned voice is an instrument of extraordinary versatility and power: it sings, drawls, lures and drowns the listener in a world of glistening perfection where the delicious and the dangerous are never far apart.
Justine is a musical bowerbird, she collects both instruments and styles. She combines balalaikas with bleeding radio channels, Chinese harps with second-hand pacemakers, and classical piano with pencil and ruler percussion. It’s an experimentalism presented with a warmth and familiarity that makes it deeply human.
- cityslang.com
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