MUTTERLEIN – bring down the flags – CD digipack

MÜTTERLEIN was formed in 2014 as the solo project/persona of composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Marion Leclercq (ex-OVERMARS) in search of catharsis to override « the black sun of melancholia » induced by societal resentments and individual trials.
Whereas 2016 debut « Orphans Of The Black Sun » – released by DMP-offshoot Sundust Records, part-curated by Vindsval (BLUT AUS NORD) – channelled the organic textures of shadowy post-Punk and, as signified by the project name, the otherworldly vibe of NICO into a sort of haunted rock music, second full-length « Bring Down the Flags » ups the electronic texture, layering, anger and harrowing darkness to express a « peculiar and solitary grief ».
Vocally Marion veers dynamically between desperation, anguish, the surreal and the unsettling atop abstract smears of borderline-Black Metal, subterranean sound-design and electronics, ritualistic Doom, post-Punk savagery and brutally hypnotic Industrial rhythms.
Crowned in glory by the epic dungeon-EBM throb of « Requiem », « Bring Down the Flags » revels in oppressive tension – a sinister, single-minded and essential outpouring from an artist « howling with outrage » to « save the mute girl whose lips have been sewn forever ».