Premiere: Teaadora – “Wake Up Call”.
September 26, 2011, 0 comments
Ever since we featured Teaadora‘s marvelous video for “Pre-Agriculatural Languageless Culture” back in the earliest days of 2011, we’ve been eagerly and impatiently waiting for Ms. Nikolova’s proper album debut À Jamais Vierge / Virgin Forever to finally be released. In January, we wrote that it would happen “soon”, but it turns out that we couldn’t have been more mistaken. For reasons that lie well beyond our knowledge, it will have taken another full year before the record will have been dropped eventually. The word is now that Hot Releases will have the vinyl ready by January 2012.
Be it as it may, till then let us reassure you that it will have been worth the wait. From its unsettling first track till its disturbing finish, À Jamais Vierge is a breathtaking effort, a demanding yet immensely rewarding listen that shows Teaadora at her finest, which means a young artist provided with presumably infinite talent for songwriting and composition. The songs are densely arranged pieces of haunted folk, eerie yet frail, seldom optimistic in tone or sentiment. “Wake Up Call” may exemplify the singer’s approach, as its perfectly sweet melody, carried by a crystal-clear acoustic guitar, gets constantly compromised by dissonant sounds and Teaadora’s pretty yet unearthly layered vocalization, thwarting what otherwise could’ve been an immaculate folk ballade. Beautiful it still is, but the music’s twisted edges together with the lyrics evoke an uneasy feeling that won’t leave any listener untouched, and this is exactly what constitutes the true magic in the artist’s work.
