This is the third album from the two sisters and they’re beginning to sound a little less like a soundtrack to a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm but then who else records songs about werewolves? They still use random sounds with an abandon that makes Lee Scratch Perry seem conservative and the usual creakings, yelps, and drippings are present in abundance but there’s even a touch of rap, notably on Promise.
They return to their previous Grimm ways with Bloody Twins, with a wind in the background and a spooky music box. Japan is pretty straightforward, apart from the howls and the fact that it turns to near opera at one stage. Oh, yes, and the fact that it’s sung in a Shirley Temple-like voice and refers to being taken home and raped by queens in drag.
Why should you buy anything as apparently deliberately strange as this? Well, because you won’t be getting the same old, same old, or even the worse than same old. You’ll be getting something fiercely original and intense that broadens the meaning of music. You might not like it, but that’s another matter entirely.
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