Christmas Decorations - Communal Rust

"Like psychedelic goth folk legend COMUS playing songs they found in COCO ROSIE’s  burned down kids bedroom.”
Sabrina Milena is an artist one can really say has a worldwide outlook on life. The daughter of Slovenian and Norwegian parents, she ended up taking up residence in Berlin, Oslo and England before settling back in Germany - all the time recording her musings to multi-track tape documenting her various trips and experiences. A handful of these early recordings were collected to put together Milena's debut EP; the aptly titled 'Can't Tape Forever', and now she has managed to claw together a full length which truly shows her scope as a songwriter. Slotting herself neatly into the current neu-folk scene, Milena takes a hefty chunk of influence from classic British folk music (Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Vashti Bunyan) yet manages to infuse it with her delicate homespun sentiment, giving it an honesty and subtlety rarely chanced upon. A good point of reference might be New York's Cocorosie, but where they occasionally rely on art and an oblique sense of NY style, Milena takes a markedly more European outlook. Interestingly, this album was recorded at a 'proper' recording studio rather than to 4-track tape, and that studio is from where the album takes its name. Helping Milena to mix the record was Tarwater's Bernd Jestram who along with folk pioneer Jeff Tarlton put their expertise into making sure 'Seven Sisters' sounded as good as it possibly could. The result is simply mesmerising and while owing a great deal to her contemporaries Diane Cluck, Animal Collective and Matt Elliot (with whom she toured in 2005) is as singular a vision as you could ask for from a new artist. 'Seven Sisters' is the proof we needed that Sabrina Milena is going to be a name we hear uttered more and more frequently in 2007 so grab hold before everyone else catches wind of Milenasong.

tracklist:
01 SARA   02 CASEY ON FIRE   03 THIRTY   04 NIGHTLOST TRAINS   05 LILY WYATT   
06 SOMETHING ELSE   07 LOVE FEEL YOU DO   08 FIGS TREE   09 HOW ODE   

10 SEVENTEENTWENTYSIX   11 STANDBY  12 ALL THIS BEAUTIFUL LIGHT

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