Justine Electra

This girl's presence is undeniable. Her sweet sounding folk style is belied by an undertow of someone suspended between nostalgia for the past, and uncertainty before a glimmering future. Hers are songs of hope shot through with darkness, bright love serenades drawing shadows behind them. Justine Electra's blue-toned voice is an instrument of extraordinary versatility and power: it sings, drawls, lures and drowns the listener in a world of glistening perfection where the delicious and the dangerous are never far apart. Justine is a musical bowerbird, she collects both instruments and styles. She combines balalaikas with bleeding radio channels, Chinese harps with second-hand pacemakers, and classical piano with pencil and ruler percussion. It’s an experimentalism presented with a warmth and familiarity that makes it deeply human. - cityslang.com Visit her website: http://justineelectra.org/ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.