Katie Von Schleicher Lyrics

Katie Von Schleicher would have been hard-pressed to find a more fitting title for her new album. Bleaksploitation pits gloomy anguish against high drama, and they fight to a draw on seven songs that balance weird with compelling and catchy.It’s a defiantly lo-fi collection, steeped in reverb and full of gritty atmospherics that veer off from the more straightforward direction Von Schleicher took on her 2012 album, Silent Days. Where many of those songs had a loose-limbed, almost rootsy quality, the tunes on Bleaksploitation are tightly wound and far more intense.The first thing you hear on the album is Von Schleicher’s voice, pleading as though she’s on the verge of collapsing dramatically into a heap. She sings with wounded bewilde... read more