Category Archives: review: music
Of Musical Conjurings: An Interview with Meredith Yayanos
The Lady of the Manners has a special treat for you Snarklings! In December 2012, a gorgeously unsettling musical work was released: A Blessed Unrest, by The Parlour Trick. A collaboration between Meredith Yanos and Dan Cantrell, is an album perfect for spirits looking for a house to haunt, or to soothe a madwoman in an attic. It quickly became one of the Lady of the Manners’ favorite musical works, and is a perfect soundtrack for writing.
And now, presented to you after assorted adventures and hijinks with email and schedules: the Gothic Charm School interview with Meredith Yanos!
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Fight Like A Girl – The Review!
Now, you didn’t think the Lady of the Manners would talk about flouncing happily around while listening to the Fight Like A Girl album without telling you all about it, did you, Snarkings? Perish the thought.
First things first: FLAG (as Fight Like A Girl is referred to), is a very fun, clever album. It is the soundtrack to Emilie’s book, The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls, and if the listener doesn’t have at least a passing familiarity with that book, FLAG may be a smidge confusing. In many ways, Emilie Autumn’s Opehliac release was more approachable for people not familiar with her work: its “Victorian-industrial” songs about struggling with madness, emotional turmoil, feminism, and classical poetry are catchy and stompy while retaining a sense of being covered in tattered, antique lace. (Or, as Emilie Autumn described her music: “like the best cup of English Breakfast spiked with cyanide and smashed on your antique wallpaper.”) Continue reading
Fight Like A Girl: An Interview With Emilie Autumn!
Hello Snarklings! The Lady of the Manners has been flouncing with glee around Gothic Charm School headquarters, because not only has she been listening to the new Emilie Autumn album Fight Like A Girl, but she was also given the opportunity to interview Emilie for a second time! So without further wittering or waiting, on to the interview! Continue reading
Show and Tell: The Sepiachord Passport
First things first: not only did the nice people at Projekt send me a copy of The Sepiachord Passport, but I’m friends with the crew at Sepiachord. I was there the fateful night when Mr. Bodwell came up with a name for that genre of music that sounded like the descendants of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Rasputina, and I’m very glad I was! Thanks to the tireless efforts of Mr. Bodwell, I’ve been introduced to swarms of new musicians to listen to. The Sepiachord Passport is a wonderful sampler of quirky musical delights; while the core aesthetic behind the idea of Sepiachord is steampunk, there are glimmers of dark circus, burlesque, Continue reading
Show And Tell: :ankoku butoh: by Faith & the Muse
Full disclosure here: the very nice people at Mercyground sent me :ankoku butoh: for review. Which made me clap my hands with glee, because honestly, I would have purchased it. I love Faith & the Muse, and have loved them since I read about them in Carpe Noctem magazine and sent off a money order to purchase Elyria way back in 1994. Continue reading
Show And Tell: Fables And Fields Green by Blackbird Orchestra
Fables and Fields Green from Seattle-based May 2025