World-class violinist. Fashion icon. Famously bipolar. Vegetarian turned vegan. Identifies herself as asexual, freak for some, idol for others, Emilie Autumn is one artist you may love or you may hate, but definitively hard to stay indifferent. And even further, listing – and living – through “F.L.A.G.” – her third installment – you may love one song and hate the next one while this is another tumultuous journey from glossy cabaret to Industrial chaos, from burlesque to Glam Rock and back to psychotic Steampunk, while she often labels her music and style as “Victoriandustrial”.
Her vocal work has been compared to Tori Amos and Kate Bush, while her music encompasses a wide range of styles, it was labeled “new age chamber music, trip-hop baroque, and experimental space pop”, as well as “cabaret, electronic, symphonic, new age, and rock & roll”. Things did not changed with “F.L.A.G.”, Emilie cry one moment and laugh the next one and the music follows her ever changing flow of mood. Not an easy walk through a sunny park Sunday at the noon, but a dark, fractured, fever burned trip on the wild side. For real and for delusion.
“There was a little girl, who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good, she was very, very good
But when she was bad, she was homicidal!”
“Take the pill that makes you weaker
Take the pill that makes you sick
Take the pill or you’ll be sorry
Take this bloody pill and make it quick
Take the pill that kills your sex drive
Take the pill that makes you cry
Take the pill that burns your insides
Take the pill that makes you want to die
Be careful what you say…
Today could be your day…
You no longer rule your body
You no longer own those rights
You will wake up when we say so
You will sleep when we shut out the lights
Enjoy your stay…
‘Cause you can’t run away…
Get back in line, get back in line, get back in line…”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8r9lTR3NAA&w=545&h=409]
Tracklist:
01 – Fight Like A Girl
02 – Time For Tea
03 – 4 o’Clock Reprise
04 – What Will I Remember
05 – Take The Pill
06 – Girls! Girls! Girls!
07 – I Don’t Understand
08 – We Want Them Young
09 – If I Burn
10 – Scavenger
11 – Gaslight
12 – The Key
13 – Hell Is Empty
14 – Gaslight Reprise
15 – Goodnight, Sweet Ladies
16 – Start Another Story
17 – One Foot In Front Of The Other
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