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This string-driven British quartet once specialized in Dead Can Dance-style reveries. Here they move into full-throttle sonic overdrive in collaboration with producer Alex Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten. Bleak and harrowing European artistry abounds, though a faint resemblance to the Cure circa Disintegration make "Cut and Peep Show" passingly accessible. --Jeff Bateman
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Miranda sex garden's "Fairytales of slavery" is the BEST album ever to come out EVER! I Mean it too, It's PERFECT. belive me. It's A beautyfull combination between light and darkness, Excellent writing of both lyrics and music. MSG combines soft angelic female vocals with violins and flutes with spacey guitars and spine- chillling sounds , making a beautyfull mixture of very dramatic and even erotic classical-rock. It's the first MSG album you should listen to, ater that you'll see that you'll be looking for MSG's albums everywhere. Enjoy
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Although occasionally elevated, this album sits disappointingly next to the excellent Suspiria. This time out the imagination seems to have been fettered, when rarely present, by the brevity of the tracks, and mostly swapped for a formulaic, sinister-by-numbers, approach. Sweet and sour is lashed on without any sense of the unexpected, or any effort to offset whatever taste sits beneath. As an appetiser, admittedly ahead of its time,the record would seem to suggest an additive-rich main course of Marilin Manson. Overall, this album left me feeling unsated, and slightly cold.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
A mesmerizing album
16 July 1998
Format:Audio CD
'Fairytales of Slavery' is probably Miranda Sex Garden's most rocking recording to date, should they ever bring out a successor. They are not everyones cup of tea, as they are difficult to listen to and are musically quite demanding, but this speaks only for the high quality of music and sound. I remember them having a hard time as opening act of Depeche Mode's last european tour a few years back, but the guys from Depeche Mode know good music, the reason why they chose Miranda amongst others. It is difficult to describe Miranda's style. The vocals are gracefully female, in a classical sense, so they do not sound like Alanis Morrisette but more like Dead Can Dance or Cocteau Twins. The music explores the more intense and passionate aspects of people involved with the darker and more passionate sides of love and sex, hence also the fitting title. The guitars are not the dominating aspect, but violins and a driving rhythm section, especially on their songs 'cut' and 'pee! ! p show', last of these being one of my all time favourites. It is certainly not gothic, but far beyond that musical category. The music and atmosphere on the album are far to grown up and mature to be confused with that kind of sound. Miranda Sex Garden are certainly an arty band, but this fact can certainly not be used as a reproach. It is music for serious listeners, who can appreciate this highlight. It is not for people having only a shallow taste in music and it is intended even less so for a superficial audience. All in all, it is an album I admire and respect, as well as love to listen to.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A beautiful controlled chaos
7 Oct 2005
Format:Audio CD
Same as its predecessors ("Iris", "Suspiria") "Fairytales of Slavery" defies easy categorization and continues the band's classic line of genre-breaking fusions which so good turned out to be in their two previous releases. Produced by Einstürzende Neubaten's Alex Hacke, the album displays a noisier and harsher instrumentation. Relying on a lot of feedback and heavy percussions, "Fairytales of Slavery" reveals itself as Miranda Sex Garden's most experimental and sweeping album. There's also more changes on the line-up and Hepzibah Sessa replaces the departed Kelly McKusker. Other musicians like Andrew Blick or F.M Enheit (from E.N) also make an appearance. Katharine Blake's vocals and lyrics (slightly perverse and ambiguous) are bewitching as ever and she is occasionally accompanied on singing by Donna McKevitt. My personal picks in the album would be "The Wooden Boat", the eerie "Wheel", "The Monk Song", "Freezing" (my very favourite) and the bleak "A fairytale about slavery".
As a whole the album drags a little bit on its second half and that's why I rank it a little below compared to "Suspiria" or "Iris", but nevertheless both its volatility and theatricality make it a fascinating album that you won't forget easily. Definitely recommended.
As a whole the album drags a little bit on its second half and that's why I rank it a little below compared to "Suspiria" or "Iris", but nevertheless both its volatility and theatricality make it a fascinating album that you won't forget easily. Definitely recommended.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Why Haven't this band broken through?
14 Jun 2000
Format:Audio CD
Has anyone heard this band but me? Awesome all female Goth/Industrial hybrid is like Enya meets Skinny Puppy. But that makes it sound way more simplistic than it is. This band deserves some attention immediately!
The songs Cut and Fly are austounding visions of heartbreak and sadness and peepshow is amoung the best songs of the goth genre ever recorded. While TRANSIT and SERIAL ANGELS display an aptitude towards intrumentals that is rarely matched anywhere.
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