ELLE BARBARA'S BLACK SPACE - "Delice Creole" 12"Elle Barbara's Black Space Dlice Crole Peach Pure 12" (Celluloid Lunch, 2021) "Elle Barbara is a Montreal based avant garde singer songwriter, multidisciplinary artist and performer, whose musical output alternately combines elements of soul, sophisti pop, psychedelia, glam, and underground. A lover of the odd, dark, or overlooked elements in popular music, Elle Barbara rose from artist run spaces at the turn of the 2010s and has seen their work soar

this is fiercely unique music

Hamish at Flying Nun Records and Bill at his Blue Ladder Theatre

imbuing the spacious ambience pioneered by label bosses Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald with a frosty

This is one of the most punishingly brutal releases on all of Technique Street

What's not to love

such that the ten tracks don’t turn into one flaccid grey mass of static

As the musicians played

End-times tunes

Misha Mengelberg

of unexpected developments

but for anyone who digs the new generation of singer/songwriters out there

From what I could decipher