Track Listing

1. Opheliac
2. Swallow
3. Liar
4. Art Of Suicide
5. I Want My Innocence Back
6. Misery Loves Company
7. God Help Me
8. Shalott
9. Gothic Lolita
10. Dead Is The New Alive
11. I Know Where You Sleep
12. Let The Record Show
13. Dominant
14. 306
15. Marry Me
16. Bach: Largo For Violin
17. Poem: How To Break A Heart
18. Poem: Ghost
19. Poem: At What Point Does A Shakespeare Say

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #227134 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-10
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Import

Album Description
This is without a doubt the most promising newcomer act Trisol has ever signed. In fact, it is possibly one of the most anticipated "gothic" releases of a debut act ever! Written in the style she calls "victoriandustrial.

Customer Reviews

Hauntingly Rich and Vibrant
When I first listened to Emilie Autumn, I dismissed it without too much thought because of genre labeling. Lately this has become a real problem, too, (the act of labeling, I mean, and not my dismissal of albums) with more and more things wearing a "goth" or "alternative" tag around their thin plastic necks. Upon rediscovering her I found this out and realized that I made a momentous mistake (and apologized to the music Gods), and I also realized that I had unconsciously let a label like "goth" steer me away from a great voice with songs that range from interestingly bleak to poignantly descriptive.
How crushing.

With this album, there is a noticable increase in sound quality and I appreciated that. Earlier albums had been faulted - rightly so - for their inability to transfer what Autumn sounds like fully, and I always felt like I was missing something. On Opheliac, everything plays and plays well. Not only dones Autumn sound great, but she breaks the conventional mode in the ways she is known for and the contrast she develops works out well. She plays an odd array of instrumentation to craft just the right feel for a ballad, puts poetry on the album just because the poems are really worth noting, and she takes time and makes social comments about things like suicide and looks. She also offers a great deal of work on this album --- when you find yourself wanting another song, you are rewarded with the fact that you have a double-sided helping of hearth and not just a few tunes.

As far as the album goes, quite a few songs are worth mentioning. Her combination of Bach and Autumn in Bach: Largo for Violin are enticing (and, if you like that, you should look up her album that is a manifesto to this type of talent), her reasoning for not going on living in a world that doesn't appreciate the living in The Art of Suicide is well-played and well-versed, and her commentary on what it means to be "pretty" in Thank God I'm Pretty hits so many pros and cons that it makes one laugh and nod at the way she mocks it all. The poems are great as well, the up-tempo songs make one like to listen, and the wonders go on and on.
I HIGHLY recommend this album to those that enjoy the label, that enjoy the Emilie Autumn, or that simply want a singer with a bleak side and momentum. If you have any doubts, look around and find a sample of one of the tunes (I like Thank God I'm Pretty and The Art of Suicide) and see what you think because reviews, much like anything else, are subjective.

For the sake of those who do not want to repeat buy, I am including a list a songs:
(1)Opheliac (2) Swallow (3) Liar (4) The Art of Suicide (5) I Want my Innocence Back (6) Misery Loves Company (7) God Help Me (8) Shalott (9) Gothic Lolita (10) Dead is the New Alive (11) I Know Where You Sleep (12) Let the Record Show (13) Dominant (14) 306 (15) Thank God I'm Pretty (16) Marry Me (17) Bach: Largo for Violin (18) Poem: How to Break a Heart (19) Poem: Ghost (20) Poem: At What Point Does a Shakespeare Say.

So Let the Record Show...
This is a fantastic album.

Emilie Autumn is one of the rising stars on the gothic music scene. Having released her first album, Enchant, in 2002, she disappeared for four years before reemerging with her opus, Opheliac. Combining grinding industrial beats with Victorian style melodies and instruments, EA brings a new perspective on a tired aesthetic. The whole album is a meditation on betrayal, anger, suicide, insanity, and a personal apocalypse. This is angry girl rock for the metal age.

The music on this album is top-notch; you can feel her classical training bursting through every note, and each song is full of lush violins and menacing harpsichord. Periodically her trademark metal violin makes an appearance, and adds nicely to the retro-futuristic feel of the album. Her vocals take a bit getting used to, but it is clear this is done for effect, as on some of the songs her voice sounds pretty (Marry Me, Swallow) and there's already proof of her nice voice with Enchant. Her lyrics are clever, with multiple layers of meaning, and melodramatic to the point of sarcasm (though, since the gothic genre is so melodramatic, it can be a bit hard to tell). Disc Two contains some spoken word poetry (taken from her poetry book, Your Sugar Sits Untouched, now discontinued), which is a lovely touch and shows her multiple talents.

I have only two quibbles with this whole album: for one, the screams on I Want My Innocence Back leave a little to be desired (the vocals on the EP have a much rawer sound to them, which adds to their power). The second is that, while her lyrics are clever, she tends towards repetition in the extreme (something which detracts a little from God Help Me). This is, however, a standout album and one necessary for your music collection (though I'd look elsewhere, as I have not seen such a high price for this album on other mail order sites).

Precocious Princess
Absoluetly amazing album. Many people are turned off simply because she "looks like a clown" but that most certainly doesn't change her sound. The music can move any listener no matter what their preferred genre is. The music is just something else. I Want My Innocence Back, Opheliac, Misery Loves Company, and Gothic Lolita are my personal favorites on this album and deserve a listen.