Reviewed by Eric Saeger
Montreal-based Mierau has her google-eyed-chick moves down, but with so many google-eyed chicks around there’s little to do to set oneself apart from the pack but slow it down a little more and get more spacey, which she accomplishes in ‘Hushabye’, a series of half-whispered loops over backward-mask loops and all that stuff. Martina Topley-Bird shouldn’t worry too much in the here and now – Mierau’s strongest track here is a cover of Cure’s ‘Lovesong’, a move not exactly screaming originality from the mountaintop – but she has some formidable strengths, including classical piano training, a fetish for Rhodes (‘Shine’), and a good grasp of what to do with wide-open spaces on trip-hop canvasses (the title track). Grown-up fans of Collide would be all up in this.
Grade: B
