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01. CARLA DAL FORNO - Italian Cinema
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02. CARLA DAL FORNO - Fast Moving Cars
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03. CARLA DAL FORNO - DB Rip
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04. CARLA DAL FORNO - What You Gonna Do Now?
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05. CARLA DAL FORNO - Dry In The Rain
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06. CARLA DAL FORNO - You Know What It's Like
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07. CARLA DAL FORNO - Dragon Breath
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08. CARLA DAL FORNO - The Same Reply
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ARTIST
DAL FORNO, CARLA
TITLE
You Know What It's Like
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BLACKEST EVER BLACK
CATALOG #
BLACKEST 015CD
BLACKEST 015CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/11/2016
Carla dal Forno
presents her debut solo album
You Know What It's Like
, following time in cult Melbourne group
Mole House
and an earlier association with Blackest Ever Black as a member of
F ingers
and
Tarcar
. Her voice is an extraordinary instrument: both disarmingly conversational and glacially detached. It has something of the bedsit urbanity of
Anna Domino
,
Marine Girls
,
Antena
, or
Helen Johnstone
- stoned and deadpan - but it can also summon a gothic intensity that
Nico
or
Kendra Smith
would approve of. This voice is the perfect embodiment of dal Forno's emotionally ambiguous songs: their lyrics rooted in the everyday, observing and exposing a series of uncomfortable truths. "Fast Moving Cars" and "What You Gonna Do Now?" weigh up claustrophobia against loneliness, inertia against acceleration, doubling-down versus taking-off; the title track acknowledges the provisional nature of love and "real" intimacy, then decides to brave it anyway. By the time the startlingly sparse "The Same Reply" arrives, the sense of dejection is absolute. The vocal-led pieces are interspersed with richly evocative instrumentals. Smothered in tape-hiss and reverb, the seasick synthesizer miniatures "Italian Cinema" and "Dragon Breath" channel the twilit DIY whimsy of
Flaming Tunes
and
Call Back The Giants
. The drum machine and bassline of "DB Rip" are pure Chicago house, but then its dark choral drones nod to
Dalis Car
's dreams of blood-spattered Cornwall stone. "Dry The Rain" drinks from a stream of moon-musick that runs through
Coil
,
In Gowan Ring
,
Third Ear Band
, even the
Raincoats
's
Odyshape
(1981).
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