Birth, death, and all points between from the Danish changeling.
From the black metal of 2017’s Mareridt to the progressive folk of 2020’s Folkesange, Amalie Bruun – aka Myrkur – has been a musical shapeshifter, an artist for whom genre conventions are the starting point for her creative journeys, never the destination. With Spine she forms a union between the very different styles of her past work, producing an album that can drift and glide over the listener, or lurch out of the shadows screaming evil. Sometimes even within the same song.
“Blends insoluble elements to birth this strange chimera.” All this could have made for a disconcerting experience, but Myrkur’s ethereal vocal presence binds it all together. The album reunites her with Randall Dunn, the producer from Mareridt, although…
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Prog Italia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 144