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Just
barely a breath after the worldwide success
of "Opheliac,"
Emilie Autumn emerged from her Asylum yet again
with "Laced / Unlaced,"
a Double Disc set featuring, no, not her voice,
but her violin skills.
Disc 1, "Laced,"
represents her past, containing the worldwide
release of EA's rare teenage classical violin
recordings including works by Corelli,
Bach, Leclair,
and EA's own original compositions, all performed
on period Baroque instruments including lute,
harpsichord, and cello accompaniment. "Laced"
also contais several of EA's never-before-released
live classical recordings featuring
some of the most virtuosic violin playing we've
ever heard.
Disc 2, "Unlaced,"
represents EA's future, in a metal-shredding,
Yngwie-meets-Paganini-styled romp performed
on her famously striped and bloodied electric
violin. Written in the harpsichord-laden, "Victoriandustrial"
style of "Opheliac"
but with a relentless, metal edge, "Laced
/ Unlaced" shows the evolution from
child-prodigy classical violinist to reigning
queen of the "shredolin," and beckons
us ever deeper into EA's strange world of torturous
insane asylums with a flick of her black-nail-polished
fingertips. |
