CocoRosie : The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn

<a href="Reviews/Album_Reviews/CocoRosie_%3A_The_Adventures_of_Ghosthorse_%26_Stillborn/"><img src="http://www.qromag.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/cocorosie.jpg" alt=" " /></a> In the shadows of Native American shamanism and a French aesthetic, CocoRosie's music is a combination of slow, mysterious rhythms and haunting, Golden...
7.7 Touch and Go
2007 

 In the shadows of Native American shamanism and a French aesthetic, CocoRosie’s music is a combination of slow, mysterious rhythms and haunting, Golden Era vocals.  On their third album, The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn, ethereal noises and operatic interludes are in injected into the mix of box-and-crank hip-hop and old-timey crooning.  With this album, the duo of sisters further craft a truly eccentric sound that feels both new and old.

On the opening track, "Rainbowarriors", when the glitchy opening shake and lonely warble expands into a light hip-hop jaunt soaked in effects, the album’s tone is set.  Echoed vocals and down-tempo beats are on much of The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn.  Bianca’s scratchy, half-grown vocals often carry a hip-hop cadence like on "Werewolf", which is carried by a paper-thin urban beat.  Even more stripped down and spread out is "Promise".  The carnival-esque "Japan" uses a weighty beat and catchy vocals before and after a somber, operatic moan. before  There’s a certain delicacy throughout the album, while projecting an image of disconnected bravado.  

Further enhancing their reputations for the esoteric, Cocorosie have created an album full of charm and soul. The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn has innocence, fire, sensuality, and a spooky sense of secrecy.  The pulse of the beats and shiver of the effects provide their magnetizing vocals a velvet patchwork to lay back dream on.  There’s a shroud over the album of being half-awake and half-asleep.

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