Eerie Wanda returns with her second album, Pet Town, released from Joyful Noise on 25th January.
Eerie Wanda is the brainchild of audio and visual artist Marina Tadic, born to Croatian parents and resides now in the Netherlands.
Her second LP, following her 2016 debut Hum, is a credit to creativity fostered in isolation. Tadic along with band mates - Jasper Verhulst and Jeroen de Heuvel - utilises minimal recording techniques incorporating her unique vocal quality to create ten songs of loneliness yet become jaunty warm numbers.
Lyrics cover topics such as boredom to isolation, to a love of hometown and why it keeps calling you back yet based around the notion of solitiude. Yet there is a drive and determination to this record which can be heard on tracks such as 'Magnetic Woman' with its lovely harmonies and repeating basslines, to the wistful 'Moon' which winningly shows Tadic's vocal dexterity.
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From title track, 'Pet Town' there is a perkiness about the album helped by the homespun sounds of repeating handclaps, finger snaps - as heard in 'Rockabiller'. This sunny feeling is in contrast to the aforementioned lyrics of remoteness, but this juxtaposition and mesh of contrasting emotions makes for a record that is both winning and reassuring.
Pet Town is available from Joyful Noise Records
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