A pleasant surprise,a breath of avant-garde fresh air, this morbidly curious psychical geographic album from The Classical recalls Portishead, The Dresden Dolls, Lene Lovich and Scott Walker; all played out to a tumultuous junkyard jazz score. The former actress turn vocalist/musician Juliet E. Gordon and her foil Britt Ciampa channel various characters and locations for their highly impressive Diptych, and evocatively bring our ancestors back to vivid life.
“Whether its withering in the psychogeograpahy of Palermo’s open burial catacombs, lamenting a Grecian Suzanne Vega like hymn to the departed souls, or rising from a subterranean cell towards the first signs of glimmering light, The Classical conjure up the most daemonic tableaus. Previously the preserve of the chosen few, lauded in their Bay Area home of San Francisco and by anyone who by happenstance came across it in 2014 via its self-release on Bandcamp, their finely tuned agitated jazz/theatrical explorations into the gloom Diptych, has thankfully been reprieved and given a physical rele
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