Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous (2015) EN

The compass with a violin key needle says: "north". This week Sweden. Rich not only with pagan black metal and blonde pop stars, trust me. To break the ice (accordingly to the geographical location) - Anna von Hausswolff and her band. A unique character of the Swedish music scene, just like Karin Dreijer,  erratic like Antony Hegarty, aerial like Kate Bush. A gothic songwriter who performs in churches and sings about love with the devil. The gothic part of her is perfectly audible everywhere in her works. Worrisome pop, dreadful folk, rock&roll played on church organs - that's what she sounds like.

"The Miraculous" shows a questionable miraculousness. It's as miraculous as a possessed girl who walks the walls, as a stone angel opening his eyes, as Madonna's bloody tears. Miracles, no doubt, but are they miraculous? I don't know. The album is epic where it should be, funeral-like and claustrophobic in other places. And above the sounds of the Addams Family orchestra planes von Hausswolff's both strong and airy vocal.

House wolf? Actually yes - a beautiful and domesticated black mass.

"The Miraculous" is available for 7 EUR.

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