gAZELLE TWIN
Pastoral ANTI-gHOST MOON RAY 7/10 Menacing, nightmarish electronic vision of Albion
Gazelle Twin is Brighton artist Elizabeth Bernholz, whose discordant electronic soundscapes are thrilling, hilarious and unsettling in roughly equal measure. Her first proper album since becoming a mother seems to explore a paganistic England linking Arthur Machen and JG Ballard, using heavily distorted synth voicings and juddering beats that lurch between the ecstatic and the nightmarish. The operatic electronica of “Glory” sounds like kate Bush fronting a jungle 12in being played at 33rpm; the joyously unhinged waltz “Better In My Day” is an amusing piss-take of nostalgic bigotry; while Bernholz’s whispered vocals on tracks like “Hobby Horse” come with an undercurrent of menace.