Gorgeous debut of discrete dream-pop by classically trained singer-songwriter Vanessa Bedoret, a timeless bouquet of raptures and ballads iced with shearing strings and shatterproof electronics - one for fans of Wild Adoration, Seefeel, Oï les Ox, Flora Yin Wong.
Presented by London’s Scenic Route, ‘Eyes’ represents Vanessa Bedoret’s first fully fledged solo record after tentative starts with James Marrs and Fat White Family’s Severin Black since 2020. She arrives pretty much fully formed from a background of formative classical training that gave way to stints in punk bands and club music, while fostering passions that range from opera to black metal. All of those style are apparent in Bedoret’s arrangements, but transmuted with a personalised sense of emotion and dramaturgy, making for swoon-worthy stuff, puckered with a clear discipline and a lucid vision.
‘Eyes’ is a compelling example of an artist who’s learnt the ropes before tying up their own way. Composing, performing, and recording everything inside, Bedoret operates at a cinematic scale as she stages a seven-part movement from the soaring, diffused vocal theatrics and elastic rhythm tension and release of ‘Choice’ thru the stately poise of closer ‘Eternal’. She proves equally adept at classic, if subtly avant, folk in the gorgeous lilt of ‘Ballad’, as she does at melding rugged, slow drum programming with ethereal blooz or knifing isolated blast beats into Ligeti-tense strings and cybergothic electronics in ‘Transition’ and the coarsely textured but finely spatializedy dread of ‘Pas’.
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Gorgeous debut of discrete dream-pop by classically trained singer-songwriter Vanessa Bedoret, a timeless bouquet of raptures and ballads iced with shearing strings and shatterproof electronics - one for fans of Wild Adoration, Seefeel, Oï les Ox, Flora Yin Wong.
Presented by London’s Scenic Route, ‘Eyes’ represents Vanessa Bedoret’s first fully fledged solo record after tentative starts with James Marrs and Fat White Family’s Severin Black since 2020. She arrives pretty much fully formed from a background of formative classical training that gave way to stints in punk bands and club music, while fostering passions that range from opera to black metal. All of those style are apparent in Bedoret’s arrangements, but transmuted with a personalised sense of emotion and dramaturgy, making for swoon-worthy stuff, puckered with a clear discipline and a lucid vision.
‘Eyes’ is a compelling example of an artist who’s learnt the ropes before tying up their own way. Composing, performing, and recording everything inside, Bedoret operates at a cinematic scale as she stages a seven-part movement from the soaring, diffused vocal theatrics and elastic rhythm tension and release of ‘Choice’ thru the stately poise of closer ‘Eternal’. She proves equally adept at classic, if subtly avant, folk in the gorgeous lilt of ‘Ballad’, as she does at melding rugged, slow drum programming with ethereal blooz or knifing isolated blast beats into Ligeti-tense strings and cybergothic electronics in ‘Transition’ and the coarsely textured but finely spatializedy dread of ‘Pas’.