The Vessel - Music

MJ Guider Is New Orleans Native Melissa Guion. Her 2016 Debut Album Precious Systems Is Filled With Muted Voices And Electronics That Emanate As Though From Behind A Mixing-Board Fog. Yet Despite This Sonic Haze The Album Is Forcefully Clear About What It Is Essentially An Industrial-Ambient Singer-Songwriter Album. This Is A Post-Techno Work In Which Synth-Y Goths Like Siouxsie Sioux And Ministry Are As Much A Part Of The Lineage As Say Basic Channel — And When All Of These Influences Come Together As On "White Alsatian" The Results Are Almost Poppy If Rarely Happy. "Is There Light On The Inside? Sensory On The Decline " Guion Intones Through The Ambiance Of "Lit Negative " Always Aware Of The Answer. - Npr.Org read less