I resume after a couple of days off the #zot2016 review concerning albums from 2016 that I'm only now listening to belatedly.

Exploded View - st (Sacred Bones).

Exploded View is a project by Anika, the captivating former journalist from the UK who has now devoted herself full-time to music. A project that originates in Germany but develops in Mexico, specifically in Mexico City, where the first album was recorded (an EP should have been released in the past few months) published by Sacred Bones last August 2016. The album is clearly inspired by a certain typically German aesthetic of the 1920s and 1930s and phenomena like cabaret, mixed with the typical atmospheres of burlesque, blended with industrial fascinations and arrangements somewhere between dark wave and a certain glitch sound. It's an 'expressionist' and hypnotic sound, often insubstantial yet obsessively constructed around Anika's interpretive abilities. I think it’s a beautiful album, but it could either be very appealing or leave one completely indifferent, and it certainly doesn’t suggest in which direction the project's sound might evolve in the future.

Exploded View - Orlando (Official Music Video)