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Album Reviews
Album Review: Beatrice Antolini – A Due (Cargo)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 6 April 2009
Classically-trained Beatrice Antolini returns two years after her debut release ‘Big Saloon’ with ‘A Due’, a clunky, twisted cabaret of a record that Amanda Palmer should have had her paws on years ago. Dark, rhythmic and kitschy, ‘A Due’ begins on a rag-tag note with ‘New Manner’ and ‘Funky Show’, songs that mix Beatrice’s soft, girlish vocals with hefty piano-thumping and eerie arrangements. Further along the album, the sound becomes more subdued with the likes of the mournful ‘Clear My Eyes’, but soon pick up again in ‘Sugarise’, ‘A Due’s buoyant but bizarre highlight. Hailed as one of Italy’s best loved indie darlings, Beatrice could easily slot somewhere in between Bat For Lashes, Dresden Dolls and Rasputina, and in ‘A Due’, she draws influences from some unlikely sources such as Talking Heads, creating a new kind of sound that’s been described as “latin rock-meets-new wave”. Still, while the record does not become convoluted in its stylings, it is something that will not appeal to everyone, nor will it reach the masses – a sad but honest fact. However, those who do stumble across the cobwebbed, glittered and dark corners of Beatrice’s material may find themselves seduced and drawn in to its eccentric appeal, and, like me, fall in love with her. TW
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