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Her Space Holiday |
| The Past Presents The Future |
| Wichita / World’s Fair | 2005 | Album |
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Her Space Holiday is the brain child of musician Marc Bianchi. Writing and recording under the band moniker, Bianchi’s pet project ranges from techo to strangely sonic. He’s obviously a wizard when it comes to recording and arranging. All of his songs are well-produced and a lush slightly creepy sort of way.
The colder techno side of the singer comes out to play on “Missed Medicine”. Sounding a bit like a voice from beyond whispering in your ear, Bianchi speaks his lyrics more than he sings them, but they still land with a zing. Take for instance “the key to short term success / just tell everyone that you’re chronically depressed. His cool detached vibe also shows up on “The Weight of the World”. The classical sounds of a symphony quickly give way to hand claps and we’re left with something that is slightly sonic/slightly disco. Think the Pet Shop Boys – the next generation.
Bianchi really hits his stride on the album’s best track “The Great Parade”. All of his musical quirks and oddities blend perfectly on this twisted take on death and faith. In the song, James has been told that his mother has gone to the sky. He’s devastated and asks his friend Molly to run away with him. Molly has other ideas though and encourages James to join his mother in the sky. It’s sinister and yet utterly hypnotic, when Bianchi almost chants Molly’s refrain of “Here comes your son” to the lost woman in the sky.
The music mastermind has a formula that he is comfortable with when it comes to making a record. The problem is that his style also becomes very paint by numbers by the time you listen to an entire album. The song “You And Me” has some nice lyrics, but the arrangement (the kind of stirring music that you hear in all of those movies about boys in prep school) doesn’t seem to suit them. As we bounce back and forth from the coldly techno to the overly pretty, it’s hard to find musical footing. It would be interesting to see what Bianchi would do with the sounds in between if he chose to incorporate them as well.
All in all, Her Space Holiday’s latest album The Past Presents The Future will fit nicely in Marc Bianchi’s catalogue. He doesn’t stray far from his comfort zone here, but when you’re as good at doing your thing as Bianchi is - there’s no real reason to rock the boat. |
| Amy Wagner |
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