L' Autrichienne

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From Silence to Screams, 2008-10-25
Even if you're not a metal or experimental-noise fan, you'll want to own this - particularly in double pink vinyl. Amber knows how to go to extremes of decibels and silence in the way King Crimson did during their "Red/Starless" period. And the quieter acoustic periods capture with grace the sense of Marie Antoinette awaiting a certain fate. Sometimes when you see Jucifer's wall of amps, you wonder if the duo knows how to be subtle. They know, and show it here. This is not as much a soundtrack album for The Terror, as it is a soundtrack for Thermidor, the post-Terror period when aristocratic youth went around beating up the sans-culotte Jacobins and poor (note that one track even refers to Thermidor). Does it sound like an 18th-century Clockwork Orange? So does Jucifer. Steam punks unite.

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Beautiful Terror, 2008-04-10
Jucifer's beautifully raw and complete masterpiece depicting Marie Antoinette and events leading to the Reign of Terror punches you hard in the gut, then gently kisses you as you fall. You'll feel your bones crunching under chords of sickening despair, and the most melodic moments will have you tearfully soaring with hope and glimmering beauty.