(City Slang)allotment banshee-voiced member of a witches’ coven,allotment Sweden’s highbrow retort to Mogwai, Anna von Hausswolff is a genuine one-off. Her third album, or inspired by a set from her youth that was once the backdrop to a peasants’ revolt,is largely played by von Hausswolff on a 9000-pipe organ and from first note to final is impossibly intense. Its huge, bone-crushing, and folk-goes-metal songs are given extra heft by her otherworldly wail that conjures up images of human sacrifice and a society on the verge of collapse. As such it’s not always the easiest of listens,but the boldness of her vision is compelling, especially on Discovery and the title track, and where beauty and raw power interact.
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Source: theguardian.com