Maria Minerva - Tallin at Dawn (Not Not Fun, 2011)

Avec Maria Minerva, on perd tous nos repères. Les repères géographiques tout d'abord, puisque cette estonienne exilée à Londres sort sa première cassette sur le label américain Not Not Fun. Repères temporels aussi : synth-pop, eurobeat, new wave éthérée, une musique bien d'aujourd'hui, c'est à dire bien ancrée dans les années quatre-vingt! Une certaine blogosphère défricheuse est immédiatement tombée amoureuse, j'ai eu plus de mal, me demandant si je n'écoutais pas une vieille cassette d'Enya. On perd vraiment tous nos repères!

Maria Minerva
Tallinn at Dawn
cassette Not Not Fun Records NNF 222 (USA, 02-2011)

01. California Scheming
02. Hop Hop Gone in Spring
03. Sad Serenade (Bedroom Rock-n- Roll)
04. Tallinn at Dawn
05. Strange Things Are Happing in my Room
06. Other Side
07. New Life
08. Unchain my Heart
09. Stairs to Nowhere
10. 10 Little Rock Chix Listening to it Neu!

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Get used to this name. Maria Minerva swept down out of the clouds to our digital doorstep with several albums worth of her breathtaking bedroom fantasia silk-pop and we were smitten. The Estonian-born, London-residing synth-songstress traverses too much terrain to box her into one basic style grid and Tallinn At Dawn, her NNF debut, offers 10 points of proof. There’s lovesick alien dancehall anthems (“Strange Things Are Happening In My Room,” “10 Little Rock Chix Listening to Neu!”), 90s-ized satin-sheets dream ballads (“California Scheming,” “Unchain My Heart”), lo-fi Young Marble Giants-y instrumentals (“Stairs To Nowhere,” “Tallinn At Dawn,”), all tied together with beautiful eroticized waterfalls of Maria’s deeply-delayed vocals. There’s shades of warped Cocteau Twins cassettes, early Nite Jewel, and obscure Tokyo art-pop side projects but Minerva’s vibe is ultimately too homegrown and hermetic for simple aesthetic comparisons and that’s a huge reason (among many) why we love it so. Scope her 100% Silk 12” for another prize piece in the MM puzzle. Pro-dubbed olive tapes in retro-portrait J-cards designed by Manda B Brown. Edition of 150.

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