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Gazelle Twin, the project of
English singer and electronic musician Elizabeth Walling,
crafted the electronic lieder of
The Entire City (2011). They were underproduced and sung in
an amateurish tone, but a couple of them displayed a promising
Haxan Cloak
if menacing imagination
(Men Like Gods and
I Am Shell I Am Bone).
Unflesh (2014), boasting a much more sophisticated production, veered towards gothic industrial dance-pop,
but an original version of it, particularly when coupled with timid vocals and beats, like in Anti Body and Belly of the Beast.
Kingdom Come (2017), with longer songs, perfected the use of the
electronics to sculpt sinister atmospheres. However, the results are
still mediocre, except for the
dark death-evoking vortex See How They Run and the industrial
Metro for metronomic beat, eerie drones and operatic vocals
Pastoral (2018) didn't improve by much. In fact, most of the album
is filler. The
zombie industrial dance Better in My Day, the
witchy thundering melodrama Little Lambs and the
ghostly shamanic chant Glory could be powerful songs if arranged by
a more skilled producer and sung by a more gifted vocalist.
She reworked songs from that album with a choir for Deep England (2021).
She comes through as a dilettante imitating
FKA Twigs and
Lingua Ignota
on Black Dog (2023), rarely capable of inventing
her own musical language.
I Disappear and Unstoppable Force are the best attempts
in that direction.
She also scored several film soundtracks.
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