![]() ![]() 'Nanny's World', for instance, is full of black humor, the kind that makes you feel slighty uncomforable. Though the general mood of the album is definitely dark, eerie and nervous, there is also in most songs a touch of wit that has to be taken very seriously. On the contrary, on 'Wholeness Sounds', Kemp goes down to a lower, rounder note, more powerful than ever. In the opening track 'Dirt Glow', vocals are high-pitched, witch-like and contribute to building a strange, tribal atmosphere, where the violin, paradoxically, is the sign of an outburst of violence. Her voice is perfectly mastered and used with both boldness and sharpness. ![]() This time, she produces a new genre, some kind of folkish prog-metal, witty and bittersweet. But Rose Kemp has clearly been raised in the rock age, she listened to Black Sabbath as well as to Tom Waits and knows how to play the electric guitar. ![]() The folk influence remains of utmost importance, especially through the use of strings, and of seemingly traditional melodies. But with 'Unholy Majesty', she obviously wants to take a new - electric - departure to make something novel, and it is undeniably a felicitous attempt. " Rose Kemp is a mock debutante: she started recording and writing for her mother's band, Maddy Prior And The Girls, and released a first solo album in 2003, 'Glance', which was typically folk and totally acoustic.
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