I wasn't calling that piece profound. I don't think anyones ever written a profound song about vampires (though if they have, it would have been her, with the song 'Holy Water Moonlight', and it still possesses a degree of profundity because Anna-Varney is using vampirism as a metaphor throughout the album they're both on). I think the problem with Sopor... is generally the same problem I have introducing people to a lot of neo-folk bands. Her voice is very strange and it takes a while to key in to her emotional expression, and you also basically have to listen to an album at least to start grasping what I'd call her 'personal mythology', as well as realising her musical range. The reasons I initially started liking it were very different to the reasons I continue listening to it for. Having listened to every song she's ever completed, including the demos and some highly odd Black Sabbath covers (probably the only musical indication she may have a sense of humour) I think its pretty impossible not to have awesome respect for her. For part of the reasons of your instant judgemental criticism. She gives precisely 0 shits about what you, I or anyone else thinks of her music, and she uses it to bare her deepest feelings. There is that air of high camp around it that is inherent in goth culture, and I think she would admit that, but when you actually look in to the lyrics, the main themes of which are her trans-sexuality and alienation and her resultant depression, you can't help but find some of it harrowing. Could just be I identify with being a lonely person with gender issues who hates the modern world.
@ Flaming: I did. I said everything was very limp and unengaging, by which I meant to imply that the drums resembled in rhythm, and indeed drum sound, the drums on the built-in drum machine in my guitar pedal. No, seriously, I just re-listened to the song in case I missed something very key, but, erm, it doesn't sound 'deceptively easy', it sounds 'very easy'. I was able to pick up the rhythm tapping on my desk in two bars in all of the songs three rhythms. I seriously do not understand why they'd even be deserving of comment, (except on the flaccid sound), let alone praise.
