Classic Rock: She didn't sing a single word

It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

We look back in a series. Today to the Englishwoman Anne Clark and her album “Psychometry”. A masterpiece in which, as always, the artist didn't sing a single word.

The former queen of sinister electronic dance pop went acoustically astray. Like the last studio album “The Law Is An Anagram Of Wealth”, “Psychometry”, recorded on the last German tour, is more of a poetry reading than a pop concert. Accompanied by a five-piece band around guitarist and keyboardist Martyn Bates, Anne Clark celebrates her strange songs as a mystical mass. Hear:

Once again, the Englishwoman largely foregoes artificial additions from the computer: the drum box remains packed, the sequencer unpacked, instead there are pieces like “Unstill Life” and “At Midnight”, brittle classical miniatures. In the reverent atmosphere of Berlin's Passion Church, the cold, clear voice of the pop poet with the quintessentially British nasal dialect - who, as usual, doesn't sing a line - clashes with warm cello sounds and soft string harmonies. Oppressive.

To the album: https://anneclarkofficial.bandcamp.com/album/psychometry

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