Mushy
Faded Heart

Mushy is a Roman singer who, with her splendid Faded Heart, shows her ability to skillfully draw from and reinterpret the lessons of early 80s darkwave groups, but that's not all. This year, to my great pleasure, there has been a rekindling of interest in certain dark music that has long populated my nightly listening. Of course, when revisiting certain sounds sculpted and canonized by historic groups like Cocteau Twins or, why not, Black Tape For a Blue Girl, the risk of plagiarism is always just around the corner. Our Mushy, however, deftly avoids this risk by offering her own personal mix of the genre's typical ingredients, producing mature pieces like the splendid Child Of Light Will Burn.

But she doesn't just offer us all synth and ethereal voice pieces; there are also splendid instrumental pieces like “Objects In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear,” which wouldn't look out of place (pardon my insistence) on a Black Tape for a Blue Girl album, or “She Was Elsewhere,“ a worthy soundtrack for a Giallo / Horror by Dario Argento from times past. The overall result is thus a coherent and mature work, with some less successful pieces that are nonetheless generously compensated by the high quality of the remaining pieces.

Let yourself be enchanted and hypnotized by Mushy's ghostly voice and her hypnotic little marches and lullabies with an intangible Synth flavor. You won't regret it.