My Review: Body of Pain -Revenge

 Body of Pain -Revenge

Is it enough for a couple from Prague to come up with an album that intoxicates the central nervous system, stressing it, annihilating it with such specific vehemence? Of course: if your name is Jan Vytiska and you compose music from murky acid nights, and if you are Tereza Ovćačikova with a voice like lightning speaking on a day filled with sensual sadness, then anything is possible.

You become a vampire renting electronic robotics that sneaks into Ebm, manufacturing an endless, destabilising and generously dark sound enchantment. Nine dances within the power of the Devil, lord of truth and father of deception: the two of them understood him and made him happy with these nine blackened gems...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Supino

19th  April 2023

https://bodyofpain.bandcamp.com/album/revenge

My Review: ivy z - let yours be the last burning heart

 ivy z - let yours be the last burning heart

Where is the sweetness, the sweetness that lives in the intimacy of fragility?

In the utterly gifted pen of a Czech girl, in her voice that is a polite assault on indifference, in her stubborn shyness that disappears when her music delivers to us a talent that discourages bitterness, totally.

While his new single has just been released, the old scribe talks to you about the album released on 3 February.

A mirage that pulses Lo-Fi, slips into Slowcore, paints its face with refined pop and makes time to throw feathers of elegant Dreampop here and there, to compact a play of colours on a canvas that breathes cumulonimbuses of continuous enchantment.

One is moved on tiptoe, moving the curtains and gazing at the sky: she is there writing songs about the poisonous chemtrails she dissolves with her singing that is a kiss of angels corrupted by her beauty, first...

Ivy is serious, capable, anachronistic but stubborn. Her hinted guitar is just one of the thousands of caresses the music offers us: we don't have to do anything, just silence and half-closed eyes, and the clouds will grant us the privilege of dancing on their backs, as we all together give the feather-voiced girl the most radiant of hugs...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

12th March 2023