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GAZELLE TWIN
Press pics:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/13he226oc14e6ld/AAAaZ0GP8rr8CpeSDDHrZXsta?dl=0
About the new album ‘Unflesh‘
"This is a rich, dark and gorgeous album, bristling with sonic challenge and literary depth"
- Uncut Magazine
"Drei Jahre danach (nach ihrem Debut) präsentiert Bernholz mit ‘Un flesh‘ den Nachfolger,
der die These stützt, dass es sich bei ihr um eine Künstlerin handelt. Denn eine solche ist
nicht an der Restauration eines einmal gefundenen Sounds, am ewigen Widerekäuen von
ein, zwei Ideen interessiert, sondern an permanentem Fortschritt in ihrer Kunst"
– Musikexpress
Album reviews and interviews
Album stream/review on Dazed Digital:
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/21885/1/stream-gazelle-twins-darklyexperimental-album-un flesh
Review on Spex: http://www.spex.de/2014/09/23/gazelle-twin-der-ursprung-allen-horros/
Interview on The Quietus: http://thequietus.com/articles/16329-gazelle-twin-interviewun flesh and review http://thequietus.com/articles/16526-gazelle-twin-un flesh-review-2
Review NME: http://www.nme.com/reviews/gazelle-twin/15642
Track premiere The Wire: http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen_gazelle-twin-track
Quotes
"woozily ethereal industrial-pop" - Dazed & Confused "sinister and salacious" - XLR8R
" violence and sexual ecstasy in all but a whisper." Q
"darkly brooding and intensely beautiful" - Gorilla vs Bear
Gazelle Twin is the creation of producer, composer and artist, Elizabeth Bernholz. The
critically acclaimed debut, The Entire City (2011, Anti- Ghost Moon Ray) and following
Mammal EP (2013, Sugarcane) are about to be succeeded by a full length industrial-pop
offering UNFLESH (2014). In March 2014, she premiered the first creep-out new single
and video 'Belly of the Beast' on Dazed & Confused and throughout may continued to
dripfeed her unnerving, Cronenberg-inspired craft in a further single release on 19 May,
plus videos and a string of UK/EU live dates after the album release in september 2014
(Last Gang Records / Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)
From the start, Elizabeth Bernholz has utilised the anonymity provided by costumes,
masquerade-like, to assist in her performance. “The original reason,” she acknowledges,
“is that I’m quite shy and, with my face on show, I’d be inclined to be meek and
apologetic.” Nevertheless, Walling does not hide herself in masks and headdresses merely
to present an ‘alter ego’ or ‘dark side of the self’ or anything so banal. Rather than an
exercise in vulgar emotional exhibitionism, Gazelle Twin constitutes, says Bernholz, “a
retreat inwards”, crossing boundaries of identity and gender, even
genus.
Unflesh is Elizabeth Bernholz’s second album as Gazelle Twin, a dark and depraved
journey into the remote cells of her subconscious. “The idea of 'unflesh' is like a shedding
of skin,” she says of the record. “It’s a tearing out of your body down to your skeleton and
breaking free. I was also interested in the London riots: young people are always
demonised, very misunderstood, but they're also at the peak of this intense consumerist
culture. You just think, what might happen if we ply generation on generation with excess
desire, unattainable desires, and just hammer it? It's survival mode, but it's survival for
nothing. Survival for the most menial reward. You're not running from a lion, you're just
trying to get out of the supermarket after buying some dinner.”
Gazelle Twin is a refreshingly discreet, secretive animal in a world where new female
starlets no sooner fall off the conveyor belt than clamour to reveal everything about their
tedious private lives, even their physiques, in song and interview, photograph and film. “I
hate the way,” Bernholz explains, “that most female artists face a minimum requirement to
appear sexually available... not that sex is wrong, but there’s so much more to a person
isn’t there?”
Artist links
www.gazelletwin.com
https://www.facebook.com/gazelletwin
https://twitter.com/gazelletwin
http://vimeo.com/gazelletwin
https://soundcloud.com/gazelletwin
http://www.antighostmoonray.com