Helen Money - In Tune

Helen Money - In Tune         Table of the Elements

CD £8.45 TOE819CD 16/11 806501181923
Strap yourself in, and prepare for a mysterious ride: Helen Money is going to take us into uncharted territory. With its clattering rhythms, symphonic swells, distorted, plucked chords, and razor-toned riffs, In Tune reaches for the limits of where an artist can take any single medium; in this case, the vehicle is, believe it or not, the cello. Alison Chesley (the sole member of Helen Money) uses atypical techniques and the accoutrements of rock ‘n’ roll to forge an exhilaratingly ominous batch of recordings. Chesley leaves no room for doubt about her rock agenda: the production at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio vivifies a muscular angularity — and check out the gleefully raucous “cover” of The Minutemen’s “Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing.” In Tune is irresistibly entertaining, and its darkness elicits that pure kind of joy you get when confronted with something you know is going to move you to a place where you really want to go. “Chesley...conjures up truly majestic music from her bow...Lovers of modern minimalists, of folk music, and of doom metal should all find something to thrill here.” LA City Beat / “…Helen Money reveals everything a person can say by playing cello through a guitar amp… She’s both a bruiser and an uncompromising romantic, capable of hack sawing and puncturing each note…or oozing seductively around it.” East Bay Express / “…an evocative and mesmerizing set of self-composed songs.” Cleveland Free Times.

Tracks : 1. MF 2. In Tune 3. Waterwalk 4. Untilted 5. Sagrada 6. You Are Beautiful 7. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing 8. Too Heavy 9. Everything I Am Thinking

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