house of skin by House of Skin
An interesting music proposal from an Austrian musician that is certainly both puzzling and engaging to the same extent. House of Skin is a set of 9 tracks released on a cassette and released also as a Bandcamp DL. Synthetic sounds that use oblique and not so transparent strategies that you could easily put into synth pop but there is so much more to it. Theatricality and pompous mood that steam from those compositions are undeniable but they definitely represent more than just some travestations of 80’s art synth pop. The atmosphere and the eeriness of the whole album is emphasized by lace-like careful arrangements and interesting production. Every track here is like a little chapter of the play. But what is the narrative and who are the actors? It is all not so obvious. Yet, so entertaining, charming and in a surprising way – bears a mark of wit and intelligence that is so rare these days. House of Skin’s debut album ‘house of skin’ is a 9-track exploration of dub-infused sound...
