Mozart’s Sister comes from Caila Thompson-Hannant striving to create without pretense or practical implication.
In 2011 after playing in groups such as Shapes and Sizes, Miracle Fortress and Think About Life, Thompson-Hannant started making music on her own as a means of a more personal pursuit.
Drawing form from living in a world of isolated passion where submission to the things you cannot change liberated a space for inner logic and inner values.
Mozart’s Sister releases her debut album, ‘Being’, on 25th Aug [Asthmatic Kitty.]
We had a listen:
The album clocks in with ‘Good Thing Bad Thing’ – this is a thing of timeless, sighing beauty.
With innocent vocals that shine like bladed garlands.
The voice is exotic with falsetto trappings and hippy yodelling. The beat is crabby.
But, overall, the track is spectacularly happy – with a saucy edge.
‘Enjoy’ has a regular pulse and sounds that are wormlike tight.
These dig into the core of the rhythms. The voice is sweet and sunny – reminiscent of Minnie Riperton.
‘Lone Wolf’ is a limber poem.
With an accompaniment of reflexive arcs. And bouts of sobs and burps.
‘Salty Tear’ is like a weird dream. Seen through a block of Turkish delight. This is full of dirty water bubbles and exquisitely camphorous body rubs.
If you like your music full of amazing wedges – lots of ideas sprouted from one stem – then you will revel in this.
The textures, the harmonics and the sheer exotic effect of that tissue-paper and rose-water voice is completely intoxicating.
Really glamorous. And divinely motivated.
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