Amanda Palmer's
Download bohemian pursuits have rather overshadowed her music until now, but her
third album reveals a vibrant songwriter as keen on the rigours of
classical piano, polka and waltz as she is on punk; imagine Regina
Spektor doing My Sharona, or Siouxsie yelping her way through Tori Amos'
Choir Girl Hotel. Smile (Pictures Or It Didn't Happen) unfurls into a
gargantuan pop song with a rolling accompaniment of what sound like a
thousand saws; The Bed is an icy little tale of two lovers from shared
sleeping bag to grave. Palmer financed the album through the crowd
funding site Kickstarter – she's got a personal army of fans who pay her
to do private gigs in their living rooms. That would be fun.
G Theatre Is
Evil feels like sitting on the bed of your tattooed, far cooler cousin
30 years ago, while she tells you "all you need to know" about music.
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