She Spread Sorrow – Huntress (Album – Cold Spring Records)
She Spread Sorrow – Huntress (Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Ambient, Experimental.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Italian Industrial diva Alice Kundalini strikes back with the fourth full length album of her sonic brainchild She Spread Sorrow. “Huntress” is inspired by the artist’s dreams and the ‘story of a huntress and her morbid and psychotic relationship with her prey’.
Content: The concept or theme of “Huntress” has been adapted into a poignant, and spooky Ambient-Industrial format. The song writing remains pretty minimal-like, but the atmosphere hanging over the songs has been empowered by ominous sounds. Repetitive, resonating sequences are expressing a kind of nearby danger. The half-spoken and somewhat whispering production of the vocals accentuate the ghost-like effect.
+ + + : I already enjoyed previous productions by this artist, but what Kundalini has accomplished on “Huntress” is a true masterpiece. She’s not only creating her very own kind of Ambient/Industrial music, but still a minimal production built up with poignant Electronic sequences and anguishing atmospheres. “Huntress” is a tormenting experience, but one you simply want to immediately renew after the last track. The last track “Parasomnias” is the longest and most elaborated piece of the work, but my personal favorite cut is “Stand” for the great sequences and demonic sphere.
– – – : I only regret the album is only featuring six tracks, but quality is definitely better than quantity…
Conclusion: I don’t know where She Spread Sorrow will end and how this project will evolve, but one thing is for sure, Alice Kundalini has accomplished her magnum opus!
Best songs: “Stand”, “Parasomnias”, “Blue”, “Get Me”.
Rate: 9.
Artist: https://shespreadsorrow.wordpress.com / www.facebook.com/shespreadsorrow
Label: www.coldspring.co.uk / www.facebook.com/coldspringhq
About She Spread Sorrow
She Spread Sorrow is the solo project of Italian artist Alice Kundalini, active since 2014. Discogs describes the project as working in death industrial and power electronics.
The first album “Rumspringa” appeared in 2015, followed by “Mine” in 2017 and “Midori” in 2018. “Huntress” was issued on 1 October 2021 by Cold Spring Records on digital and CD, with a catalogue edition also released on LP. The album holds six tracks, among them “Stand”, “Blue”, “Get Me” and the closing “Parasomnias”.
Kundalini moved to the American label Helen Scarsdale Agency for the LP “Orchid Seeds” in 2023 and the CD “The Grimorian Tapes” in 2025. Cold Spring also included the project on the 2023 label sampler “Arise – A Cold Spring Sampler”. Side-Line published a Click Interview with She Spread Sorrow on 23 June 2018.
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